"So... no tips how to learn then? If you didn't need to learn it here?" She's very much trying to get any help she can. Given she is, in a word, fucking screwed. He is- admittedly intimidating, but he didn't seem overly cruel or dangerous.

Maybe dangerous to shirt seams but that was a net positive.

"Magic just- doesn't exist at home. I can't just try to learn it from youtube tutorials." Which is a sentence that means more to her than it will to most of the local population. But when has a little thing like that stopped Abby from saying something? Never, that's when. "I even went into the library and got really bored and decided to watch people instead."