"I dunno," says the prince. "Fire things."

"Did you get the thing where it looks like you have wings to work yet?" asks Aleko.

"Sort of -" And Kiri lifts her arms and closes her eyes, and there are huge fans of flame rising from her shoulders, not quite touching the fabric of her shirt. They ripple in the breeze from the window.

The prince stares in awe. "Pretty," he murmurs.

She lets them dissipate after a moment. "It's harder to do anything really fine-control like that. If I get enough I might be able to do woodburning without any tools, but mostly it's much easier to do big things."

"How big is big?" wonders the prince.

"Just large - swaths of fire. Like half this room. It's also easier to control it if it's close to me, though, so I can light up my hand or something and that's not hard - as long as I don't want it to do tiny details like leaving exactly my knuckles alone."

"If you can make there be fire can you also make there not be fire?" is his next question.

"Yes, I can put it out. It's harder but not that hard."

"Hmm," says the prince.

"I thought about being a one-person fire brigade but it would pretty much take too long for anyone to come find me," she adds. "If I ever run across a burning building I'll fix it but I don't have a good way to show up reliably."

"Mm," he says distractedly. "Yeah."

Kiri sidles closer, having a guess but not one she wants to say aloud in front of Aleko.

If her guess is that he is thinking about her setting him a little bit on fire, she is correct!

"No," she tells him. And then she adds, "I can also do stuff with warmness that isn't actually on fire. It's kind of funny that I can make things cold."

"Basically I can't get too warm - not warm enough to hurt me - so if I just draw the warmth out of a thing, it's cold, and I'm not particularly warmer." She stands back from both boys a bit and closes her eyes again, and then the room is chilly.

"Ooh," says the prince. "That's fun."

"It's more convenient than just having to open and close windows and change clothes all the time if it's too hot or too cold!"

"Yeah, I guess!"

"I want to see how big an area I can do, but I'm worried I'll hurt the plants if I do it outside. I might see if I can freeze a layer on top of a lake or something if I find a lake to play with and it's late enough in winter that it could have frozen, but it hasn't happened to yet."

"Do you have a lake in mind?" he wonders.

Kiri shakes her head. "Why, do you know a good one?"

"Nah. Just wondering."

"The plants all do whatever plants do in winter, too, you could try it on the lawn then," Aleko points out.