[Sypha mouths the word 'metaphysics', uncertain if she's forgotten its meaning or simply never knew it. It teases at something, threads of other words stitched together, but it sits just outside her grasp. Maybe that's the best indicator that this is NEW knowledge.]

Why not? You can just imagine yourself another one, can't you? [She's teasing, okay? Setting one's host's furniture on fire is terribly rude, a bone-deep taboo. She smoothes out her parchment and begins to replicate the rune, slightly surprised at the accuracy of her draftsmanship.] Although, hm, I suppose this is a terrible place to test the results of a spell, since you could simply imagine that it worked correctly, yes?