The Sending arrived at the door and ushered Hayley into the kitchen, and turned its attention to preparing a pot of tea. Sabriel did her best to ignore it and gestured for Hayley to sit down next to her.

This particular chapter contained not only marks and descriptions of how they could be used, but also illustrations that despite their archaic style seemed more suited to an anatomy or medical textbook than a spellbook.

"Hayley," She said, "Let's get started. This isn't exactly something we can practice easily, but I will ask you to show me that you can pull the marks of these spells out of the Charter by the end of the lesson."