Nod nod. "I will not try those until I have the lessons."

"They cost - amount of time you have left to live, but -"

"Yes. I have... forever."

"But can't be killed, so. Don't go back."

"I won't," she says very seriously.

"Good. You're very quick at the language, is that magic too?"

"No, I am just very quick at words and thinking."

"You can wander the Temple-Guild grounds if you wish. Tsemo's been assigned to you, if you want more lessons or anything else."

She nods. "I'll keep learning the language as much as I can."

"I'll send you Tsemo and he can show you where to find him if you want him. Has this room been all right?"

"The room is all right."

Should she ask? ...she's gonna ask.

"What do redmages do?"

"Redmages love people," says Tse Avimi.

Yeah that sounds about right. She nods. A more thorough explanation can wait until she's more solidly fluent. (So, about another couple of weeks at this rate.)

"Greenmages change what things are easy or hard for people to do - not like making them stronger, like making them think things are interesting," Tse Avimi goes on, "and whitemages heal, and bluemages see things long ago or far away."

"And what do they all cost?"

"Greenmages forget things non-mages don't forget - to breathe, if they do too much. Whitemages are sickly and have trouble recovering from injuries too. Bluemages can't think about people normally."

"Can't... think about people...?"

"It's hard to explain even when you know the language very well. You can meet some, if you like."

"I'd like that. I think lessons are more important though."

"Yes. It might make sense to tutor you privately, if you aren't - five in your mind you'd be much older than all the other students of a normal course and also they have slightly different constraints and grew up with Cefaxi."

Nod nod. "Yes, that makes sense. I am not five in my mind."

"We do continue classes past that age but by seventeen most mages have been working for years."

"That makes sense, if they start so young, and have to learn fast anyway to be safe... Tsemo thought maybe a greenmage could help me with—some things I can't do—but if what greenmages do is change how people think about things then I think they can't."

"What is preventing you from doing things?"

"The same person who stopped me from dying can stop other things. It's... do you know the thing where sometimes someone is injured and they can't move their legs, or feel them? It's like that, but with no injury. Things that fix injuries don't fix it."