"Here." She boxes the space in lines of fairylights.

He puts a small blob there. "Does it feel any different?"

She definitely got some feedback on that.

"...yes."

"… Okay, so you can feel the lumen, at least? What about if I change the color, does it feel like anything?" He changes it from purple to green.

It does in fact, again, feel different.

"Yeah! That's weird!"

"And if I stop?" he asks, getting rid of the lumen.

It feels– slightly different from how it was before he put lumen there, possibly less slippery.

"Yeah - I think it's more - accessible now...?" Liiiiight.

It feels like she needs to twist the action a bit more. Whatever that means.

What in the fuck does that mean. liiiIIIGHT

Apparently she can't twist it enough. Or can't push it enough, or drag it enough, whatever the feeling is.

"… You okay there?" asks Purple.

"Just frustrated."

"People get better over time, so maybe you just need to work on it a bit longer?" He shrugs, looking a bit apologetic. "At least it seems like– it actually is a Thing People Can Do? And for some reason fairies and other-mortals haven't picked it up, which is weird, but okay."

"Or you're just contagious."

"… Or that, yeah, so hopefully it doesn't come with any horrible side effects. Um. Sorry if it does, but I don't think I have anything much worse in comparison to the other mortals, at least?"

"I haven't noticed anything unfortunate either."

"Which is fortunate," he says. "It'd be useful, like you said, if you can learn to do it."

"Yeah."

She gives it another try.

He nods.

If she tries hard enough, it seems like she can twist-or-whatever slightly more? But it's quite a lot of effort to keep up, and doesn't seem to be doing anything.

"I have a sense of what I should be doing but it's hard to do and hard to sustain and doesn't work."

He nods again. "I can't seem to get the thing more transparent than this," he says, indicating the pyramid that looks approximately as it did before – very slightly blurry. "And it's at about the max temperature I can do."

Promise puts her hand near it curiously.

It's not particularly warm if she just holds it near, but it's definitely noticeably warmer if she actually tries to intersect it. Not by much, but definitely noticeable and quite uniform if she happens to check that too.

"Neat."

"What about sorcery?" he asks. "I don't know how long it'd take to learn something like de-aging but presumably it'd help if I started sooner, if you're willing to teach me?"

"Few weeks to get your first simple spell managed, maybe faster if you're very talented, and from there you build up the complexity you can handle, de-aging would probably be the fifth or sixth thing you learned at the earliest."