"Corsicans were originally a colony of the Elerian empire," Colin says, his voice easily slipping into a light lecture mode. "The language is its own dialect, tempered after about a century and a half of independence. It's descended from a Draconic tongue, though as Paar proves, not all Dragon languages are the same either..."

Colin grabs a chair and pulls it closer to the bed, sitting down on it. "And unfortunately, I'm not really a big student on what magic looks like," he says. "When it's performed, or how its scribing looks. I've got a couple of books in here somewhere, but... even if it's formulas, it may be useless."