"Isn't it great? I didn't have much in the way of a real education until I started learning magic," she says, wistfully. Those days had been magical in more than the literal sense of the word. "Suddenly there's all these things that I never knew that even existed where I could have found them before—I just hadn't known where to look, you know? It's a shame they didn't teach it at your school. I mean, a certain amount of philosophy on the use of power and ethics is a must, in my opinion."

She lets out a low chuckle. "There's really far too many people who get handed mundane power that could use a bit more of that, really."