>>42355555
>and I would love to learn stuff like the inner-workings of magic from her.
Here, read about "real" magic and ask her about it

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34234.Wizards_and_Witches

https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=1f52741a1c2bbde79b4cd0febf2cae89

The Enchanted World series is a bunch of really cool compendiums about magic, myths, and folklore. I've been skimming through some of them off of my mom's shelf after it was dumped on her by my grandma and it's super interesting. They were also made in the 80's so it's not pozzed or anything, so it gives pretty authentic retellings of these stories. They're a little tricky to find links to all of them but the libgen one I provided is the first book and legit.

Lmao, I got excited about talking about these books I forgot halfway through I'm on /mlp/ and not /lit/ or /his/. Anyways, happy daydreaming!