ooc: Ooooook... I guess everyone HAS shown up *grin*.

Rae yawned again and rose to her feet. "Now, let's go ahead and get started. As I said a few moments before, today we're going to discuss a defensive spells. I know we talked about those briefly in our last class, but for the sake of continuity... let's develop a working definition. How can we classify defensive spells? How can we decide whether or not a spell will fall into that category?"