"Dal-rek-ten-mah-tul-rul-" and so on as she rattled out the nonsense sounding syllables that made up magic incantations. The full thing took about five minutes of chanting and gestures. It was possible to do 99% of it and then just do the last 1% when you needed it, but first Samata insisted on being able to do it the slow way.

She was willing to explain it as many times as it took. If she could get a street rat like Valrissa to be a wizard, she could get anyone to be a wizard.