"Cool." He swings the staff around a bit, getting used to its surprisingly light weight. Then he reaches into his coat pocket and draws out The Windy and The Float, showing them to Cerberus. "So how should I start practicing using magic? The cards? Memorizing magic words? Meditation?"

"There aren't magic words, but meditation helps, and getting to know the cards well. You can use the card by throwing it in front of you and tapping it with your staff, then calling its name."

Any dire warnings to share? Of course not.

He tosses The Float forward, reaches out and taps. "Float!"

The card twirls in the air a few times before coming to rest on an invisible surface directly in front of Terry, facing him. When Terry taps it, it starts glowing and then becomes a floating balloon.

"Kero, Float can't answer my questions about how it works, can it?"

"No, it can't talk."

"What can it do? Can it make other things float, or does it just float itself?"

"It can make whatever you want float."

"Do I have to tell it to float things, or can I want them floated and have it work? ...Float, float my notebook!"

"Until it knows you well enough to anticipate what you want, you need to ask," the bear explains as the small ballon floats over to the notebook, becoming invisible and insubstantial as it does, and causing it to float without detectable mechanism.

He pushes the notebook around, then tosses it, trying to get a feel for how floated things behave. And having fun because MAGIC. That too. "Can Float make other cards float? They'd be a lot easier to catch flailing around in midair."

They behave as if gravity wasn't quite affecting them, the notebook booping around like in null gee. Should he ask Float to move the notebook anywhere, though, it will.

"It can, but what do you mean catch flailing around?"

"Like, make the other cards float so they're still. Then find a net or something. Or possibly Windy'd be better at that, but I'm a bit nervous about her since she scattered the cards."

"When you capture them they'll go to you by themselves."

"I have get close and shout that thing to capture them. My idea was holding them still before I'd captured them, to give me a chance to."

"Oh. You can't use the Float to hold them still when they're unsealed, it's too weak for that."

"Windy's stronger, though?"

"Yes, it's one of the strongest cards and can often be used to contain other cards."

"Cool. Float, bring my notebook back then float me. Don't quite float me completely if you can manage that."

The notebook promptly (and slowly) floats over to Terry, and then the boy himself starts feeling quite weightless.

Oh, wow. Weightlessness is weird.

If he pushes off from the ground very slightly, does he come back down eventually, as intended?

Yep!

Whee! He hops around for a little while. But- weightlessness is actually pretty disorienting.

"Float, I'm gonna see about Windy now, return to card form. Cerberus... Any advice for less cooperative cards?"

It returns to card form and into his hand.

"Less cooperative cards?"

"The powerful ones with strong personalities that might not listen as well. Like Windy, she scattered the cards. Or was that just because I wasn't the cardcaptor yet?"