There is definitely a connection between her brain and the mirror!

"Do the other one?" he asks, looking at her and her magic.

"Mind Palace Gateway!"

It has a lot of the same...bits...as Mind Mirror, but they're definitely two different spell slots.

Huh. And for that matter, with more examples like that, is there an obvious... limit... to spell slots? How do these slots work, are they created, added on, or do they fill something, and are they in some sense bigger than others...?

There's no obvious place prepared for any spells she doesn't have, but neither does his have anything like that. Some of them are more complicated than others, but not really bigger.

Huh. He bounces these things to her. So whatever-it-is is just giving you power on top of power. And this looks really interesting, too.

"Interesting compared to everything else about magic? Impressive."

Well, I'm not sure I'm actually calibrated to figure out what's interesting compared to the background, I always find whatever magic I'm looking at at the moment incredibly interesting, apparently.

"That sounds like a convenient trait!"

It's plausibly less a personality trait and more an aspect of how my magic interfaces with my brain but good nonetheless.

"A convenient magical trait is still a convenient trait!"

I suppose it is.

"Well. Congratulations regardless."

Thanks, I guess. By the way, any progress on the sorcerer teacher thing?

"Little bit. Not a whole lot."

Meaning?

"Well, I've ruled a couple people out who're too busy and going to continue to be for longer than I think you want to wait."

I'm fine waiting, staring at magic is fun and figuring out the relationship between the different kinds of magic will be useful but eventually I'll want to see more of this world.

"I'd ask 'anywhere in particular?' but you probably don't have enough context to answer that question, really..."

"No. Any places."

"There are lots of good places to visit! Any particular narrowing criteria in mind?"

...something that very obviously would not exist in my world? Like, maybe something that shows off technology or something.

"Ooh, science museum?"

"Oooh! Yes!"

"We have a decent one in town! The Museum of Science and Technology, or MoST for short."