Huh. Welsh is a focus area he hasn't seen before, but maybe it makes sense for someone growing up in...Britain, by the accent? "Sadly no overlap there. I do have a handful of English self-healing spells too, but they're for minor injuries or illnesses. Anything you like in there?"

"Say on about the stimulants?"

"One is a simple cheap cup-of-coffee-equivalent. The other is more complex and fiddly but you can get anywhere from 'slightly perky' to 'cocaine' by varying the mana trickle." 

"How good's the speed?"

"It's on the lower end of the generic move-faster spells. Modest chunk of mana for a freshman, gives about a ten percent boost." Enough to not be the last out of a room, maybe. 

"Does it cast fast?"

"Couple lines." Not ideal, not crippling.

"Sounds good to have. I've got - I can't cast all my mum's spells, mind, but I can write them down, she's mostly a healer but more of a spiritual wellness focus than you normally get with those. Wake-up ward that might be the same as yours, a shield, I flipped ahead in maleficaria to get that blunt force spell for squashing things so I don't have to use the stupid cooking spell but you'll have that soon anyway though I suppose conceivably you could want the stupid cooking spell..."

Hmmm. "More healing's always nice, I mostly have low-grade personal stuff right now." And let's face it, he is going to get bitten, burned, bled, stabbed, poisoned, and all variety of harmed before this nightmare school is over. The sooner he can turn his survivable injuries into a mana tax, the better. 

"Best one is cast on a bandage, you get better results if you also sing it to the fiber in progress but it helps at all on a made bandage. There's also the silly no-mana one for 'putting yourself right', but that won't help if you've been bitten - I suppose it might help if you were in shock from it -"

"Bandage one is not quite up my alley though I suppose my affinity'd help if I planned to wear it...elaborate on the 'putting yourself right'? It sounds intriguing."

"Well, the big selling point is it costs no mana - you can boost it but it works fine without. Fixes you right up if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed or have, like, subclinical anxiety or something."

He shouldn't, he should pick the bandage one it's more practical, he doesn't have anxiety, but his affinity is pulling at him. He hasn't felt it register an opinion this strong since he tried cheating with malia that one time. "...anything else you'd like for that one, if we swap healing for speed?" 

"I'd take the ice spike."

It's not a great deal and he doesn't care. "Deal." He starts writing out both. 

She writes hers, complete with the advice about starting with the Simple Gifts song as an anchor till you have the hang of the spell and the part about the bandage one being best done in a Welsh accent.

He hands his over. The ice spike has minimal notes other than "needs a water source" but it seems like the kind that could scale up with enough water and mana input. The speed one has some details about estimated effect size and pronunciation tips that let you speak it faster without tripping over the words. 

He glances at the set-right-spell and - 

- he hasn't even finished consciously reading it and it clicks.

Nothing has ever gone this fast for him before, not even the two-word Latin buff. WHAT IS THIS SPELL. 

He pockets the bandage-spell without looking at it. "Wow." 

"Wow?" she asks, looking up from the speed one.

"This - I don't - " he is great at word today, yes he is. "This is a heck of a spell. At least my affinity thinks so. I've never gotten one instantly before." 

"...congratulations. If you turn into a superhero I'll send my mum a letter about it."

The Snark is strong with this one. On the other hand, with how much his affinity loved this spell, it's not out of the question. "If I turn into a superhero, I'll send an autograph to go along with it. 'Alexius the Great.'" 

Now how does a maybe-maleficer end up with a spell like that? Have a spiritual healer for a mom, he supposes. Does that have something to do with the aura? If so, is it less than it would be otherwise, or more? 

"Got your name all picked out already, you're well on your way to rescuing kittens from trees if you can find any of either."

"All I need's a costume. I could go digging through my heritage, whip up some gold and shiny armor like Doctor Fate or Hercules. Pity I suck at artificing." 

"Save time by wearing your pants on the outside and your blanket as a cape."

He snerkers at this. "The Shining Scrounger, that's me." 

He pockets the set-right-spell - not that he's ever liable to forget it, now - and checks to make sure no mals have snuck into his backpack during the conversation. "I should head out and -" test The Spell "- get to work on this Hindi. Good meeting you, El."