[ He's taken a sheet of his paper and the charcoal by now, though he's yet to do anything with it. ]

Bad job. That guy has far more curtain poles than I do.

[ He listens otherwise, though, occasionally glancing to and from the card in an attempt to figure out of that's a stealthy callout. The focus is interesting. ]

That's- similar to this kind of spellcraft, I think. Not the same. I know the spells that I'm using. It's the- there's a lot of decisions involved in even the simplest spell. Hundreds, most of them you probably make without really thinking. I'm- [ ...how to put it. ] -not good with decisions. At best, I wouldn't be able to use the spell at all. At worst, it'd end up coming out as a reflection of who I am, rather than what I want it to do. And I'm an asshole. The written components of the spells are- I suppose you could call them a declaration of intent.

[ Look English is his fourth language he doesn't realize that he just accidentally said that this involves marrying magic. ]