"I rather like the sound of restricting targets," Joscelin replies, dropping his affected aloofness. "And while I'd much rather learn how to start fires than put them out, but having a spell to fight fires sounds dead useful in case that bloody volcano ever goes off again."

He thinks for a moment.

"Perhaps we ought to start with the song. I may be particularly unskilled in magic but I can carry a tune, at least."