It is easiest to start with focusing your shard's power on strengthening things that are familiar to you. For me that would be my fighting skills; for you it would be your magic and such.

[Learning magic not tired to his ring really isn't high on Diarmuid's priority list right now, but a true silencing spell may end up meaning the difference between life and death. That is why he commits the process to memory. However, he really has little interest in learning to geis people. Not when he knows just how it feels to carry such a curse...]

Thank you.

[He isn't going to tell her that, though. It will only upset her.]

I should get going now. Is there anything you want to ask before I go?