"Yeah, they look at magic as an outdated and old fashioned system. I was in Thorne, for a while, when I first came here. That's where I started learning magic - it's not common in my world. Most people didn't even believe it was real."

As she talks, Nadine turns to begin untacking Dumpling, another thing she's familiarizing herself with.

"I haven't learned any healing spells myself, yet, but the ones in my book are cast the same was as any Academic spell. There's an incantation and specific elements that need to be in place for it to work. And healing spells are a little more complicated than the basics."

The basics covering what she knows and has more or less mastered. While none of the spells she knows are particularly powerful, they're useful.