“Is anything here still safe to eat? Do we know?” He shakes his head with exasperated disgust.

“Really?” He looks surprised. Not so much that she’d want to learn, magic’s an incredibly valuable skill. More that she’d ask him, and now. “What sort of magic? I mean…” He can’t expect her to differentiate the schools he does, nor have favorites in mind. “In general, what kind of things would you want to do with it?”