Hmmmm. "Oh, so you would take the magic that you learn from your friends, and see ways in which it could be combined?" she said, considering that for a moment. "that could actually be a very good way to learn the variability." And, oh how she would have no idea that combining magics was quite the 'thing' in the isles.

"They could, though her memories showed it was the mere happenstance that a cat protected her when the police did not?"