>>6060942>>6060924>>6060920>>6060912>>6060887>>6060879>>6060865>>6060855>>6060852"Hey Dill!" You stop her before she reaches her dorm's door. "Can we practice clarity today?"
"Why are you even awake at this hour? Can I at least get a look at your book while we're studying? I went through all the pages you gave me and I need more context."
That sounds fair, and you let her back into your dorm. You give her the book, and you notice she's staring at your magic hat.
"It's pretty cool, right?" You say. "It's a wakeful hat. Table, err, 'got it' for me."
"No offense, but the enchantment on this is pretty shoddy. The fact even <span class="mu-i">I</span> can tell even though Life isn't my specialty says a lot."
"What? But it works, I'm pretty sure!"
"There's technically a wakeful spell in there, but I think it's been mixed with Delayed Double to ...cut cost, so to speak. So your brain thought it was being kept awake, but it wasn't really, which is slightly different from how the spell is supposed to work."
"I mean, it's keeping me awake either way, right? What's the difference between tricking my brain into being awake and it being actually awake?"
"It messes with your brain, I think? Life isn't my specialty, Divination is. It's a weak enchantment, so whatever effect it had isn't likely to be permanent, just don't use it too much."
You don't think you've used it recently, anyway. Probably. Maybe you used it yesterday without realizing? This sucks, you wanted to use your magic hat more. Maybe you'll get to modify it later when you get better at magic.
You're still nowhere near to casting Clarity, and you're starting to see the difference between beginner spells and more advanced ones. You could cast a basic version of the former in a single day of practice, but here it's going to take at least a month before you get a good enough grasp of the basics before you can cast even a subpar version of the spell.
Dill gives you back the book after making a few 'mind copies' using another divination spell. It doesn't let her process the content of the book but it lets her keep perfect visual memory of something for a time so she can read it without holding it. It doesn't last that long though so it's not as efficient as an actual copy, and recasting the spell doesn't restore that memory, it just 'resets' the mind recording, so to speak.
"Hey Dill, is the book helping?"
"I don't know, it's too early to tell. There are some good ideas in there, but I'm not keeping my hopes up, I'm kind of a failure."
"Stop saying that, you're not."
"You wouldn't know the difference at your level. You'll see when you get better. You'll be looking at me and wondering how I can be this bad this late into the year. Alright, silly act, ON!" She puts on another dumb smile, and her voice gets a little higher pitched. "It's fine, because no one expects much from me like this! Alrighty, let's go!"