"Is that the common method of tutelage, to apprentice with a master?"

"Among the Altus mages of the Imperium, certainly. It is the way that I was taught, though by the standards of my peers, mine was a rather unconventional education." There, he smiles thinly. "I was apprenticed to my mother."

He looks to the notes on the somniari that Petrana has laid out before him, and reaches out to take up her translation. At last, he tells her, "I have never seen magic leveraged in this way before. How does it work?"