Meridia shakes her head. "We're a long way from my mother; it'd be a couple of weeks to get to her, then a couple more to get back. You don't strike me as the sort to wait that long," she says with a slight laugh. Fortunately, the white-furred sphinx explains that she knows quite a few defensive magic spells, and can easily provide protection against all of the basic ones for three of them, though that will take most of her strength to create, and keep them active long enough for him to fight. Blossom can teach him the spells, especially with the aid of the sphinx, but it's a difficult spell to manage, especially since applying too much power can make it dangerous to the user, and too little makes it worthless.