[Put in that perspective, if you view magic not as an energy but as an effort of force, yes. You need to give it space to exert. She's only recently started to read magical theory. It makes sense but she isn't sure if it's true.]
[Her being summoned felt slightly weird. She could get that her perspective was unique, but that was all she really could give. The way the world twisted around her was interesting. How her fate was stolen, later changed, but it didn't make her anyone useful if you just wanted another mage.]
Have you tried to get old dusty academics to change how they've always done things? For one person who isn't quite like them, with slightly different needs? They NEVER want to change. And he's of the opinion that I'm not here to learn magic, because Academic Magic is spoken. And he doesn't see any way I could learn the pronunciation of the words.
[Which was was a very solid motivator for her to do it, spite. Spite was good, best way to motivate a teenager with a chip on her shoulder was play to her defiant nature. Not that the High Mage thought she'd succeed, or cared, he was annoyed she existed.]
I supplement the lectures with reading the same old books he learned all of this from anyway. Usually he's repeating them verbatim.
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[Her being summoned felt slightly weird. She could get that her perspective was unique, but that was all she really could give. The way the world twisted around her was interesting. How her fate was stolen, later changed, but it didn't make her anyone useful if you just wanted another mage.]
Have you tried to get old dusty academics to change how they've always done things? For one person who isn't quite like them, with slightly different needs? They NEVER want to change. And he's of the opinion that I'm not here to learn magic, because Academic Magic is spoken. And he doesn't see any way I could learn the pronunciation of the words.
[Which was was a very solid motivator for her to do it, spite. Spite was good, best way to motivate a teenager with a chip on her shoulder was play to her defiant nature. Not that the High Mage thought she'd succeed, or cared, he was annoyed she existed.]
I supplement the lectures with reading the same old books he learned all of this from anyway. Usually he's repeating them verbatim.