Then you are not interested in learning magic. You are interested in the academics of it.

[To others there might not be a distinction, but to him there was. Plenty of people who had no talent for magic were well educated scholars who could understand curses and spells and talismans without being able to channel the power themselves. Or at least not to the extent that those talented in it could. Everyone could do a little magic in the immortal realms. He was less certain about those of the mortal realm. But he didn't think it was very common there.]

The two of you are scholars? Researchers?