  Practice is not cast at anything. You hold the working still in your head and turn it over until it settles, and the doing of that teaches you more than any amount of throwing fire about.<~><~>  Hold the spell and concentrate. When it finishes it pays you back in learning, far more than a spell of its size has any right to give.<~><~>  No two sessions sound or look alike. The magic answers however it pleases.<~><~>  It is the cheapest lesson a Magician will ever get, and the slowest.