"You could? That would be great."

"Okay."

She lays a hand on Peka's shoulder. The affected area feels a little odd for a little while, and then it stops and she takes her hand away and says, "all fixed."

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome."

"So how do I do magic?"

"Did you read the stuff I posted on the internet about how the three branches worked?"

"Yeah. I dunno which I'd be good at or resistant to though."

"Lots of people don't before they try it. So the thing is that each one needs a different frame of mind to use--Sympathy works by persuading the world to be the way you want, Effort works by pushing the world to be the way you want, and Conquest works by commanding the world to be the way you want."

"Okay..."

"So you sort of--do that, but with--intent to do magic? There's a word for the difference between just wanting something and trying to magic it but there's no equivalent in Tapap."

"What should I try first?"

She looks around for convenient loose objects.

Hair clip? Pocket everything?

She points to the hair clip. "Try moving that."

"Which way?"

"Maybe try Sympathy first?"

Okay. Come on, hair clip, please scoot.

nope

Pleaaaaase?

nope

"It's not working."

"What did you try?"

"...asking nicely?"

"Hm, okay, so like--if that doesn't work, you could try arguments along the line of 'you're my hair clip, you're used to me moving you around, this isn't that different,' stuff like that."

"...can't you move things that aren't yours?"