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?"

"Yeah? That's an example, there are other tacks you could try."

"I might not be creative in the right way if it's always like that." Hair clip, you are Peka's hair clip. She could totally push you with her hand. You are a hair clip and cannot reasonably prefer the more-touching solution to this problem so just go.

nada

"I'm losing an argument with a hair clip."

Giggle. "Try Effort."

Go, hairclip. Grrrrrrr.

Hairclip does not go.

But grrrrrrrrr.

And yet!

GRRRRRRRRR.

Nothing.

"Thought: are the attempts hurting at all?"

"No."

"Then you're not in the right frame of mind--I'm trying to think how to explain it better..."

Peka waits.

"Okay so--imagine magic is this lever, and the operations are things you can do to it, but you have to be holding onto the lever first?"

"Okay..."

"So you sort of--metaphorically grab onto the magic lever while you're trying to make the hairclip go?"

"...I don't know how to do that."