It's not. It does take practice and will power, but once you get one or two down, the rest is easy. I was taught by other amateurs and we made it work.

[ Julia comes from a situation where only a select few magical people are formally trained at a college. Those who are rejected from the college are left without memories (usually) and with no easy way to get to magical spells. They have to steal, research, find people willing to share, just to be able to do anything similar. But it makes hedge witches more tenacious, more daring.]

It'll come in handy for you if anything goes down bad here. Usually Solvunn is pretty safe except for in the woods at night, but that's normal of any place.

[ Night usually brings out beasts but that's hardly a this planet only problem.]

But sometimes we get weird things thrown at us. Last year all these rifts started opening dimensional doors to other places and monsters started coming through they had to fight.

[ She shakes her head.] Not to scare you! Just an example of why learning how to take care of yourself is important.