Ah, being called a nerd and no fun -- that was the Emily way. Her candor had certainly grown on Carlisle over time, he had to admit.

"It is," Carlisle notes. "Well, glyphcrafting is. I am admittedly not sure how well someone without training from a younger age would handle casting and channeling, but even those with no magical training can activate glyphs, given they have any latent skill for it. Causes a lot of accidents when those glyphs get into the wrong hands, of course."