"How does that work?" Grapes grapes grapes.

"You perform a ritual until you're sufficiently familiar with its moving parts, and then replace a coherent subset of the moving parts with a gesture or word, and repeat the process ad nauseam."

"What does moving parts mean in the context of a magic ritual?"

"Specific steps, for the most part, although also physical implements involved."

"Can you give an example?"

"What kind of example specifically?"

"...maybe it would make more sense to have a look at the half hour ritual first but I'm just not getting a good mental model at all."

"It would probably help to look at the ritual first," he agrees.

"Cool. Is now good?"

"Certainly."

"Awesome." She finishes her grapes and looks for somewhere to put stem and core.

Kanimir points to the composting bucket.

Compost!

And then they can go back to the library to locate the ritual.

"So what does it do?"

"Creates a small floating light."

"Like this?" She creates a small floating light.

"Roughly."

"All right, where do I start."

They can go back to the library, then, and Kanimir shows her the book with the light ritual in it, and walks her through the notation and so on.

Which she will take notes on and perform!

It takes about half an hour, as advertised, and at the end she has a little bobbing light.

She cackles.

"Oh, excellent."

"Iiiiii can do unlimited otherworldly maaaaagic!"