"Oh. Well, elements I'm already studying with Lady Yennefer." Nothing valuable missed there, then. She's had him working on them since he mastered ice, and he's managing to varying degrees with it. Of course she's teaching him the way he does magic.

"And I don't think I'm quite ready for illusions, yet. Doesn't come easy to me, like it does to some." It's not a lack of power. Mat has plenty of that, as it happens, and a great deal of potential.

He just doesn't quite know what to do with it most of the time.

"I don't often come to lessons with the 'prentice mages anyhow. I don't practice much Thornean channeling. I mean magic."