"Well I had this fun idea of continuing to try to charge a piece of paper every, like, fifteen minutes, and seeing how long it takes before a weird effect happens again."

"...on the one hand that sounds like it's inviting disaster, but on the other it sounds fun."

"D'you wanna do it then?"

"Oh, no, I just took a shower and don't wanna take another, you do it."

"… Or Juniper could do it?"

"I could," she agrees.

She does not seem to be doing it.

Nor does Theo.

"Oh, fine, we could both do it?"

"… Okay," he says. Since that probably results in her having the thing happen first, since she drained her mana (if it's that) first.

He hopes. (Ugh.)

So she goes and tries to 'water' a paper.

It works! Also a potato appears out of thin air and falls on her head. "Ow."

"… That is slightly weird, that it did both of those at once."

"Yeah, li'l bit," says Maya.

"Well, maybe it also worked the other times except the papers got destroyed before we could check?"

"Yeah, maybe."

She reaches for the potato, then looks at Theo. "Your turn?"

...Sadde takes a cautious step back.

Maya giggles a little.

Theo eyes them both a little warily, then grabs a pen and a piece of paper and writes 'water', trying to charge it.

It's charged! Also a bunch of water falls on Theo's head from nowhere.

"… Yay," says Theo, flicking his hair a bit.

Sadde gingerly steps towards him, tiptoeing around the water on the floor, and plants a kiss on his cheek.

Theo smiles a little at that, then inspects the water to make sure it is in fact water and hopefully not murky lake water or something.

Just regular water.

Well he can just let it dry off in that case. "What's next?"

"Trying to work out what the hell this means, possibly," says Maya. "Maybe you should, uh, keep doing that every few minutes and see when it starts to work?"