It was only during lunch, when they were going over all the things that they learned in the first class of Wolfe's seminars on the magical language that anyone other than Petros realized that they had only covered the alphabet and basic word structure, and hadn't actually learned more than three words in the language.
If they didn't know any words at all, it would do them no good to know the language until they managed to translate the essentials. It would tell them where they had made mistakes in spells that used the new style runes, though. That was a small improvement, but it meant that they would have to keep attending Wolfe's classes for the duration of the seminars and get more basic knowledge.
If they were persistent, they might even get him to give them a basic vocabulary book, so they could begin working on creating entirely new spells.
