"Did you think in words or in pictures?" Severus clarified as he started taking some beef lo mein from the containers.
He didn't want to try to catch up, if only because he had nothing to catch up on. He had no accomplishments she would be proud of; he had no career to speak of, no friends, no family. If he died tomorrow no one would miss him. It was sad, but oh so true. He had absolutely nothing to tell her.
"I initially thought in pictures," he revealed as he settled into the seat across from her. "So the simplest spells I'm able to just envision the outcome and put effort into making it happen and it happens. Things that are more complex or over a greater distance, I have to focus on the outcome, think the spell, and even sometimes remember the feeling of the wand gesture to get it to happen. But the brain is amazing and once you've done it a handful of times, the thought process becomes instantaneous."