"Yes."

"Well, it's not our top priority and as we both learn more things perhaps we can revisit it lateer."

"Perhaps. ...The spells I know of rely on continuing to have the sample so if I had eyes on it from its extraction to its destruction that would do, if whatever you want to do with it is brief enough."

"Let me check..." Typing typing. Frown. "...Apparently 'how long does it take' is too complicated to answer immediately and succinctly. I'll talk to them later."

Nod. "I realize that there's no evident magic here, that's just not immediately a reason to discard basic precautions."

"Okay, next topic... What uses besides healing and combat do spells typically get used for? Or perhaps we could ask what spells you would use over the course of a normal month and assume those are reasonably common as a good baseline to consider synergies."

"The ones that get used most are orisons and cantrips, which are reusable - I can catch them again after I cast them. I generally prepare Guidance, which makes the target slightly better at something they expend it on in the next minute, like throwing off a spell or attempting an attack, though since it's effectively free I use it when I expect no such thing. I also usually have Create Water and often have Stabilize, which will prevent a dying person from getting any worse until they're disturbed one way or another, or Light. I can prepare four orisons in a day and the fourth might be Light or Resistance or Virtue, I have not for some years been unable to delegate Mending or Scrivener's Chant or Detect Magic or Detect Poison but they all see routine use, and some of these wizards can also do an arcane version. Most clerics do not, but I do, have one wizard cantrip, though I'm very bad at it due to not really having the Cunning for wizardry - it's Prestidigitation, which has many uses but is principally for cleaning and laundry, which I can't do. I mostly use it for creating small props as either chess pieces or strategic visualizations."

This very professional Intel spook absolutely wants all the details on orisons. And then every spell he can remember the existence of.

Scrying sounds useful. To peek on interiors of downed alien warships before trying to breach them, an activity that has always had the highest casualty rate.

He can't scry yet. It's fifth circle for clerics. Do they also want to know about spells that he can't cast because clerics don't get them or because clerics of Lawful Good gods don't?