"Something about where I was focusing. I'm not sure."

C'mon.

He nods and then continues to wait.

If it ever actually did change how grabbable it was, it's not doing it now.

"I was probably imagining it. Gone now."

When she stops trying to grab it, she might notice that it no longer feels very mentally grabbable. Weird that that particular bit of space seems to have a property of mental grabbable-ness, isn't it? It disappears a few seconds later, assuming she doesn't try to grab it again.

"Oh well," he shrugs.

"Yeah." Shrug.

"I might start practicing doing it some more," he says. "Could come in handy."

"Could do. Especially if it's not something the other mortals in the regular mortal world can do; it can be your specialty for - whatever you'd use it for."

"If they can't use it, it might seem like magic. And– I'm not really sure that'll be in my benefit, to go around having people think I can do magic, if I can only do lumen?"

"I guess. They might expect you to be more versatile. And sorcery won't work there."

"… I honestly have no idea how people who think magic doesn't exist would react to it existing, overall. I don't think they'd try to kidnap me and experiment on me, because I wouldn't expect most people to, but I don't know that culture, so maybe they would. And I'd rather not have that happen."

"Can't help you on the culture."

Purple shrugs. "… Lumen doesn't actually have to be blobby," he says. "And it can also block light instead."

He makes the sphere into a pyramid and then makes a new blob next to it, appearing mostly black instead of being the current amber or the previous purple of the sphere. It's still possible to see stuff through it, but it's gradually getting darker.

"Huh, cool. I can do darkness with sorcery too but it's a different spell than the lights."

"I'm not actually sure what might be relevant about it, so I'm trying to mention things as I think of them, in case it's useful. It's weird having to explain lumen."

"Everybody where you're from just knows everything about it already?"

"All of the common things, yeah? It's used around the place, like, a teacher might use it for a diagram, so long as they don't mind paying attention to keep it up? They'll draw it on a whiteboard or something otherwise."

"Huh. I guess that'd do it if you just live really densely compared to fairies."

"Uh– yeah. We're on a round planet, lots of water, not a ridiculous quantity of land that you can actually live on and that isn't mountainous or, like, volcanic, and most people group together in cities. I was in Rhunya, which has– a few million people?"

"That's probably more than there are fairies on this whole continent."

"I don't know how big your continents are, but yeah, it's quite a lot of people."

"This is Queenscontinent; it's big and has one of the very largest courts on it - the Queen's."

"I think you mentioned her before?"

"The Queen is a very old one-of-a-kind fairy whose kind magic is to know every other fairy's name. She runs a large court consisting of whoever she wants."

"That… sounds kinda really imbalanced?"

"...why would it be balanced?"