"Yes. Yes I am."

"Meanwhile Anna's mostly just been figuring out how to wear seven flowers without looking like a tool."

"That's difficult?"

"I've got them all hidden right now," says Anna, who does indeed not have any flowers peeking out of her clothes, "and that works out okay, but like if I let the flower heads be visible then I'm kind of clashy."

"I see your point."

"Yeah. I've made some progress! But I am not the artist in the house."

"I will see what I can do!"

"Thanks!"

"Quite welcome."

"Anyway. I think I'm gonna go make ice cubes or something."

"Have fun with that!"

"I'll try to make them pretty ice cubes, but no promises!"

"Alas, a gap in the prettiness surrounding me, how shall I bear it?"

"I bet you'll figure something out!"

She traipses off in search of a kitchen sink to make ice cubes in, since that seems like a reasonable place for it.

The kitchen is fairly findable. Emily goes to show off for her sister.

And Anna makes ice cubes. She can make them by freezing water or by just sort of making ice be, although it's way different from conjuring! She can make them in various shapes! ...kind of pathetically crude shapes!

Emily would probably not be judging her for that even if she were there to do so.

With practice, she manages to make ice cubes in shapes other than "vaguely cube-like lump" and "not very cube-like lump". Like "could plausibly pass for an actual ice cube", and "reasonably tidy sphere"!

Spheres are good.

Edie is not impressed because she knows Emily well enough to know that wasn't especially difficult for her but she is entertained.

Everyone practices magic to a greater or lesser extent, and a few days later another exploratory expedition is proposed.

"Maybe this time we'll find Narnia."

"There are a suspiciously large number of wardrobes."

Cass giggles.

They do not find Narnia in any of the first several rooms. They find dust and expensive furniture and knicknacks.

So much dust. So many knickknacks.

"I'm going to count the number of wardrobes we see," says Cass. "That's four."