Well… why not? He quickly cast the floating lantern spell, causing an orb of light to spring into existence above his palm. He had the orb fly around the room while he repeated the spell two more times, producing a different colored orb each time. The new books Ilsa had told him to read were mostly yawn-inducing, but they did tell him something rather interesting. All those variations he had been practicing had more uses than just improving his shaping skills—they also allowed him to adjust certain spells more to his liking. The same variation of the light emitting exercise that allowed him to produce colored light also enabled him to change the color of the glowing orb produced by the floating lantern spell. Mastering a large number of light-related exercises would apparently also make

