"Ah," she says, pleased; magic might not be something she can replicate, but at least she'd like to be able to learn about how to recognize and work with it when necessary. "No, I studied medicine in Paris--" Germany, but who's counting, "--and it's strictly scientific. I'm playing catch up at the Glory Shada, I have a colleague whose sister-in-law is lending me texts from the university--"

She waves it off a moment later; he isn't interested in her obsessive study of her field.