"Sense is one of my good qualities."

"One of many."

Kiss!

Giggle kiss!

Then off to practice?

Off to practice. 

And Ellie gets a feel for what spells she can do. The class of tricks Villanelle identifies as 'Prestidigitation' comes naturally, and things involving lightning or electricity- creating floating balls to shed light, mildly injurious jolts, a hovering disk to block attacks. She can also do an Unseen Servant and make her hands become claws, as seen earlier.

"You've got a pretty tight theme - not weird for sorcerers though, they're all different but usually consistent with themselves..."

"So I should- just try to expand based on what I have?"

Hum. "Magic grows the more you use it. There's complications on that - like, I have to intentionally sit down and learn or create new performances to grow my magic. But supposedly sorcerers are a lot more straightforward there - I've heard a lot of them say that their magic develops towards their needs."

"Fight something more powerful than you, get stronger lightning. Fight something immune to lightning, get magic floating swords. Need to nonlethally hold someone, get harmless bindings. A lot slower than just that, though - it's pretty much if that need comes up a lot."

"I think the theme thing is mostly like, what your magic will try to come in as if you just generically need more oomph, or just what's easiest to get, or if you don't need something explicitly not themed - but my aesthetic sense is that'll be like, harmless bindings that look like they contain lightning?"

"Huh. Interesting."

"Magic is. And it's big and complicated, too."

"Too bad there's no user manuals."

"Some types of mages manage that. Lucky bastards like me, pretty much."

She sticks her tongue out at Villanelle.

"But maybe some of my luck will rub off on you."

"Will Thorn Port have libraries?"

"Absolutely. It doesn't have the biggest anywhere, but, they've got a couple smaller ones."

"Maybe I'll be able to dig something up."

"We can do a little tour. And in the meantime, I have books..."

"Ooh."

"Wanna see?"

"I do."

Library, then!

Where it turns out Villanelle has at least several thousand books, probably a few hundred scrolls, a dizzying assortment of weird crystal things she says also store data, possibly around a thousand comic books (a handful of of these are definitely from her trips to Earth, but most aren't), and an entire separate library dedicated to sheet music and recordings.

"There's also a lot kind of lying around in various rooms I'm in a lot, and some older stuff in storage..."

"This seems like more than enough to start with."