In she steps, gingerly.

The house contains a slightly absurd number of books.

...oooooh!

He smiles warmly at the look on her face.

She will try to contain herself and not immediately explore the house and look at all of the books.

"So," he says. "You wish to become a sorcerer. Has it been explained to you precisely what this entails?"

"Depends on how precise your 'precisely' is. I've been informed of the agony part, and the emotional feedback loop part, if that's what you mean?"

"Mostly I meant the agony part."

"Then yeah I know about that."

He nods. "Activation is permanent, and the process cannot be stopped once it's begun."

"I understand."

"Do you wish to begin immediately, or hear anything else about the process first?"

"Tell me stuff, I'll be able to watch it live and if I know more that helps understand it more easily."

"Very well. You know that it hurts, do you know why it hurts?"

"Vaguely? Something about senses?"

"The magic burns out your sensory organs, replacing them with versions identical save for the ability to perceive and manipulate magic."

"—ouch. Well, theoretically I can already perceive it."

"Well, they don't literally burn out the physical organs," he says, making a so-so gesture with his hand. "And I am aware of that, but...it rather sounds as though your way of perceiving magic is rather different from our way."

"Probably. If Edie were here I could show you. What's yours like?"

"Well, for one thing it sounded a bit as though you could only perceive magic that already exists."

"...yeah, that's the case."

"Sorcerers can see a sort of...underlying pattern to the world, and rearrange it," he explains, "and when it's arranged into the right patterns, magic happens."

"...is this pattern, itself magical?"

He makes a so-so gesture. "It's hard to be sure."

"It's totally possible I'd be able to see it if I knew how or where to look. My magic sense doesn't map neatly to three spatial dimensions."