"I ...think I need to explain myself more clearly. In my experience, there are three primary forms of magic: through learning and the application of will, through innate magical power, or through bargaining with greater powers. I think that this is a case of the first being confused for the second or vice versa." Illumination rifles through their bag and pulls out a small square of cloth and begins to 'knead' it. It takes time, but as they talk, it starts to increase in size.

"When I say that you need to tell me the steps you did, I mean that I want enough detail to understand what you were trying to do. Why this book? What preparation, if any, did you do before you read? Did you gather supplies? Did the 'resource' just appear? Or do you need to pull it from a portal?"

With a full sized shroud in hand, Lu spreads it out on the floor beside the semi-hidden body before putting their staff aside, grabbing the feet, and starting to roll the corpse onto the fabric.

"We're lucky that this was a small error. No one cares about a dead body when it could have been live rats, a sickness, or some other nasty, truly dangerous thing." Heave-ho and rolling into place, wrapped up like a burrito. "I'm happy to teach you how to build and set wards, to prevent further incursion, but I need details about what you're doing."

A pause as they cock their head and consider. "Or find someone else that you'd rather work with. I'm not bothered either way."