"Homework?" He tilted his head, testing the word. Context didn't truly help him in this case. Usually when these people said unfamiliar things he could figure out what they meant by what else they had said. "You want to fix your home with magic?"
He chuckled and the sound was somewhat dark and bitter. "This place has stolen us. It might as well have my time as well." Maybe these people had good lives and happy living to go back to but he did not. This place was not pleasant but he was not alone and hunted. That was better.
"I do. Perhaps I will teach myself something new. Lightning might be fun." He wiggled his fingers at her.