It's early morning (or late night, more precisely: the sun hasn't risen yet). Following Julie, your Mistress, you enter a dark room, dug like a cellar beneath the house.
There, the Lady Julie teaches you the basics of nature magic, and the powers of Water and Shifting. "I will only teach you of the Shift of Humans and Animals, for
you must begin with one subject and cover only one at a time".
Hours, days, weeks pass by. You now can master some lesser forms of animal shifting... in theory. You never practiced. You had no victim (target, think of them
as targets) to practice on, except for Red... but a Magician of the Order of Aea cannot harm another.
One day, you dare confront your Mistress on the subject of practice and training. "I feel ready, Lady Julie. Will you give me leave to exercise my powers?"
"That I will", she answers, "for I taught you how to clear a man's mind of his recent memories. You are younger than my granddaughter, but I take you're wiser.
She's but a child, in body and mind".
Feeling pity for Red's predicament, you decide to repay her of her friendship. "May I take the apprentice Rebecca with me? We can practice together, and I will
cast the Amnesia spell for both of us".
"I shouldn't allow this", your Mistress replies, "but your plead comes from friendship, and the Powers are indulgent with friends. I give her leave".
You thank your Mistress and kiss her hand, then you run out to tell Red the good news.