As to theory vs practical debate, Lea made a thoughtful noise. "I don't know," he said. "If I wanted to do a spell with a different effect, I'd probably just go learn a new spell. That's how most people have to do it back home anyway."
"I guess the problem with me is that a lot of the lessons at the school assume that the people going there are planning to make a career out of wizardry," he said. "And I'm... really not. Here or back home. I'm mostly just interested in burning off enough magic that I don't explode, or experience whatever other horrible death they claim will happen if we don't learn to control this world's kind of magic. So I'm not really sure why I'd need to know the theoretical side of things."
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As to theory vs practical debate, Lea made a thoughtful noise. "I don't know," he said. "If I wanted to do a spell with a different effect, I'd probably just go learn a new spell. That's how most people have to do it back home anyway."
"I guess the problem with me is that a lot of the lessons at the school assume that the people going there are planning to make a career out of wizardry," he said. "And I'm... really not. Here or back home. I'm mostly just interested in burning off enough magic that I don't explode, or experience whatever other horrible death they claim will happen if we don't learn to control this world's kind of magic. So I'm not really sure why I'd need to know the theoretical side of things."