"It's an attempt to undo, rewrite, or supercede the laws of reality, when it comes down to it." Iri leans forward earnestly, as eager to explain her own style of magic as she is to find out more about Patchouli's. "The methods vary so widely as to be almost completely unrecognizable from one another, but from alchemy to necromancy, essentially it always boils down to that. If it works against what most would consider the 'natural order', it can probably be considered magecraft. Actual magic is a different thing entirely, of course..."

Sitting at a table, babbling about breaking the laws of nature probably wouldn't ordinarily be considered "training" of any sort, but when two practitioners of magic come together, a discussion is pretty much inevitable.

Well, that or a fight. Already Iri's learned that Patchouli's world is apparently as prone to that as her own.