"Yeah, well, our normal powers, whatever they are, don't work as well as the stuff we learn here. So something big and nasty could get the drop on you and then we'd be calling you Green Jelly, not Loki, and that would suck for everyone. The people who like you here, like me, and you, too." Isabel nodded at that.

"I mean, I know Headmaster Birony sealed away the undead dragons, but tick-tock, eventually they're gonna come back. And I, for one, plan to be ready." She put one fist into the palm of her other hand, letting the spoon fall in her ice cream urn as she did so.