He smirked at his daughter. "Then you can start by learning how to do that while being chased by whatever incarnation of death and dismemberment your opponents chose. The drawbacks of being a caster, getting ambushed before you can prepare your spells. Of course, you can also learn how to prepare them while you are actually asleep too. Which would you prefer to start with?"<br/><br/>He pulled out a rapier with an oversized hand guard, and a small, spinning cylinder attached to the bottom of the hilt. "Hiana, this is for you. A test model of a combat rapier. Meant for spell blades, but you might get some mileage out of it. Spin the cylinder at the bottom to the crystal of choice, then select the area of effect. You can amplify the effect by channel a spell into the hand guard, but don't try to double channel unless you want to try holding expanding gases, molten metal, and pure power."<br/><br/>He turned to his wife, and offered her an orb about six inches across. "Ama. Your toy. Channel a spell into the orb, then throw it. It will gain a disintegration field that will allow it to ignore up to three times the channeled spell level in hardness. So a ninth level spell will blow throw second tier enchanted adamantine. Don't over charge, or it will dump all the spell energy on top of you, and likely damage the orb. After you throw it, spell empowered or not, it will go out until it hits something it can't penetrate or fifty feet, and then come back, hitting everything it went through again on its way back to you. Or, you can dodge to one side, and get another hole punched through things."<br/><br/>He turned to one piece of simulation equipment that had been brought in by his constructs, which could produce illusion that simulated substances for targets. "Use that to play with the orb, Ama. Hiana, get to know the rapier, I will be keeping an eye on both of you. Kimat, focus on your channeling, see what you can do with your... actually, your mother hasn't been told that you aren't magicless, has she?"