There are also certain spells one can only learn as they grow older and wiser. Things like resurrecting the dead to fight again. Though my mother did once mention to me there was a young prodigy to be found among the Nightsisters who could wield magick far beyond what a kit her age should have been able to.

[He assumes Merrin perished along with the rest of the Nightsisters during the massacre, not knowing she is still alive.]