"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."

"Okay. The only other way I can think of to explain is telepathy but that's not a great option."

"Why not?"

"Because it's not very good telepathy--it's not ongoing, it basically transmits everything in the sender's mind at the moment it's cast, including the pain."

"Yikes."

"Yep."

"I mean, doing magic hurts too, right, so if I can't take it I shouldn't be doing this?"

"Magic doesn't all hurt the same, normally you'd have time to build pain resistance before having this much magic pain heaped on you."