"Then we'd better get started!" says Ana. This seems to express the general consensus.

The kobold grins and nods, and walks around distributing the light-generating and magic-detection spell forms. It takes longer than the sense did; rather than giving an immediate awareness of how they're supposed to work, she has to hold the form in mind, as if she were casting with it, while each student examines it. It is, again, very intuitive, how each form works with the sense and its patterns.

"You've all gotten slightly different parts of the magic-detection form," she explains (and indeed, that form is significantly more detailed than the light-generating one, which has most of its details worn away). "It'll take a while for you to get all the details. Sharing what you have with each other will make it go a little bit more quickly, but you should be able to cast with what you have now, too, so I'll let you get started," she grins, and gets up to get the basket of sticks to pass around.

"Let me know if you want the light switched to night-time; you won't be able to see the lights you can make with that form very well in daylight."

The Jedi nod, and set to work.

Slightly less than an hour later, the end of Ana's twig begins to glow. She looks at it with suspicion.

"I have a really bad feeling about this stick now."

"Try breaking it?"

Snap.

"Oh, it's gone."

Nod. "The obvious guess is that your danger sense doesn't like miscasts. It's fine to break them right away, if that keeps happening."

"I guess that takes some of the guesswork out of it then!"

The others experience a similar phenomenon when they finish casting their first spells. Sticks are broken. They share around their different knowledge of the magic-detection, and begin round two of spellcasting.

The kobold does another round with the magic-detection as well, but mostly stays out of their way and lets them work.

When it gets close to lunchtime, she brings the group to a stop and makes an announcement. "I'm going to be away for a few days, starting tomorrow, to take care of something. I'm not sure exactly when I'll be back, but you should be fine to practice without me while I'm gone; do any of you have any questions while I'm still here?"

"Miscasts will not be harmful before the third day?"

"And as long as we break the spell before then, this magic doesn't have any other ways to go wrong we should watch for?"

"Right; they sometimes start acting strange on the second day, but they're not in danger of breaking on their own before the third. And these forms can't go wrong in a dangerous way at all."

"Well enough. I think any further questions I might ask would be better answered by casting more spells myself."

Nods of agreement all around.

She grins and nods and makes a portal to let them go home.

Home: is gone to.

"You said something about testing the exiling spell?"

Nod. "I was thinking after lunch, but we can do it now if you want, there's probably something in the traps."

"Hm. Magic or lunch? This is a hard choice."

The kobold chuckles. "After lunch is probably better; I want to work on that on-off indication, too, and that might take a while."

"And the scale has tipped! Lunch it is!"

To lunch it is, then.

The kobold explains the principle of the indicator while they eat; it and the magic-vision both work by casting a spell that generates tiny amounts of light in or on the spellbearer's eyes. It's fiddly work, and usually done by the caster on themselves so they can get the results just how they want them. Casting on others is less precise but certainly possible; her main questions are aesthetic ones, and also some functional things about how human vision works, since she's noticed that kobolds definitely have some differences in how they see in certain situations, mostly low light, and isn't sure if that will affect anything. Ana probably can't answer the functional-differences questions, but that's fine, she'd need to test the answers anyway.

Ana does not have any special biological knowledge, but she is able to recommend a book or two that the kobold could borrow from Bar that might help. She favors a flash around the edge of the field of vision as a style for the indicator, possibly colored according to the direction and/or occurance of the state change.

That should be easy enough. It might not look exactly how Ana wants the first time, but this will be a temporary spell anyway.

Nom nom lean nom.

Nom pat pat nom.

Eventually, lunch: is eaten.

Yep!

Back to the workshop it is, then. (Possibly with a detour to get Ana's lightsabers first, if she doesn't have them with her.) The first thing the kobold wants to do is give Ana a spell that's just the light-flash, once, to make sure it's not distracting or disorienting - in actuality, though, if anything it's a bit too dim.

Ana has her sabers already!

"Could be a bit brighter, that was kind of hard to notice."