Today's magic lesson is from the sorcerer and Dzurlord Tazendra on charging a flash-stone using (Orb before the Interregnum) sorcery. "she spent a good many hours--six, in fact--poring over a common piece of rock, first smoothing it, then bathing it in the products of her small alembic, then using a fine stylus to carve the proper symbols upon it, and at last making arcane passes over it while chanting a few words in the language of the Serioli, of which she had at least memorized what she needed to know. The Phoenix Guards, Chapter the Seventeenth page 175