"I guess if you desperately need to get into fights there are some that aren't necessarily a bad idea to get into but none that I'd recommend to someone with the amount of context you have."

"I don't need it desperately, but I won't be able to plane shift till I do."

"Got any idea what else you'd do with yourself here if you don't immediately get rescued?"

"Sell spellcasting services, probably, maybe teach some people spells but I have been exhorted to skip teaching sleep spells specifically."

"Well, it would be pretty hard on the fabric of society if you did."

"Would it be as bad if I handed out the one that only works on oneself?"

"Probably not."

"Good, it has other neat uses, it's one that only does something less powerful than its slot would suggest but lets you pick from several and you don't have to decide till you cast it."

"...That sounds very cool."

"You didn't even ask what the effects were!"

"The fact that you can make decisions after it's already prepared is cool! I would also like to know what the other effects are."

"An hour of painkiller, a bit of an edge at one task, recreational hallucinations and intoxication - those I don't generally want, though I have tried the hallucinations one before - lucid dreams if you can get to sleep on your own, ten rounds a little tougher and better at shrugging things off, putting off being drunk for an hour - you still spend the same amount of time drunk but it'll let you get home without falling down a hole or whatever - second wind if you're a bit beat up, and feeling particularly awake for a couple hours even if you've been up all night."

"...Okay, it’s separately interesting that those things are so different from each other."

"They aren't in spellcraft terms - they're all low-circle harmless-technically transmutation effects targeted at the caster. Totally different from, say, Ray of Frost, which shoots a cold ray at something, damage-dealing evocation with a target you have to aim at rather than just specify."

"And the difference between targeting the caster and targeting someone else is important in your magic?"

"Yeah. Twice, actually, as a range limit and as a target limit. And targeting a location is different still."

"I'm amazed Chanai isn't clinging to you like a limpet."

"I'm happy to talk to Chanai but is there a specific reason -?"

"He studies magic."

"Well, I don't know if any of it's cross-applicable, but he can interrogate me whenever he wants. Even if I don't have translation I could write down the questions and have answers ready for the next time I cast it."

Nod nod. "Anyway, anything you're dying to say?"

"I guess I should know how long I have to find a way to not be a guest in the house but you may not be the person to ask."

"I would think you have a while. You're interesting. I wouldn't be totally stunned if you could convince Tema she wants you around forever, though I wouldn't expect you to want that."

"Not forever forever, no, but I could carve out a year or something from my busy schedule of fighting monsters and pirates and stuff."

Nod.