... Some sort of magical sleep that she doesn't want to talk about?  Maybe it's a politically sensitive subject since she's a Princess - Aeslin doesn't really know how royal politics would work without an immortal queen reigning since time immemorial.

"If it works, the results aren't cheating.  Can you show us some of this double-magic?"

"That's what I just did to make that," she gestures to the monocle.  "Void and Order.  Possibilities constrained by rules."

Well yes; that could describe a whole lot of things.

"... Then I guess there're lots of different ways to be focusing on these ideals?  And what are these specks I'm seeing in the air around you?  The magical power that's formed the world?"

"Sort of.  Yes.  I suppose.  Aspect radiation, I guess.  The...being attuned to a concept brings that concept in tune with you and that resonates a bit even around you.  It's much more relevant on a nation-state scale.  Cultural affinities can shape the land to match, over long-enough timeframes.  ...You're not seeing all the magic because everything is magic, underneath.  You're seeing active magic."

Unconscious magic.  Background magic.  Magic weaving everything together.  Magic where the world is reacting to who you are.

"That's... wow.  You said everything was magic, but I didn't realize it was like that!  Where everything is reacting to everything like it's a spell building on itself!  Sort of like a body" (she folds her hand) "where all the muscles and blood and organs are reacting to each other!  Wow.  I - I can't assume anything isn't magic here, can I?  I mean, anything isn't actively magic in some way.

"And if the world is reacting to everyone... then it has to sort of average out different people, right?  Based on who's more in tune with the different concepts, and... are there other sorts of magical power or skill too?"

"I'm not sure how you mean the question."

"That - magical resonance from yourself - can affect anything around you?  And other people have that resonance too, if more or less of it?"

"Yes.  It's usually rather subtle."

"Unless one actively makes a show of it - but that is, in some senses, another form of subtlety, compared to spellcasting."

She holds out her arm and looks at herself - does she see the sparkles there?

"Then I think I've got enough of a metaphor to cast again..."

There are, if not so many as surround either of the others.

"There's a lot of metaphors to magic to begin with.  Goodness knows even I don't know half of them.  That said - would you like to try again, then?"

"Sure!  I'll try to pick up -"  She glances around, deciding against the rope she used last time just in case the world remembers it's already got some magic attached.  "That book over there.  No channeling magic through my body; the magic's already in the world; I just need to get it to pay attention to me.  The world itself is my wand..."

She carefully folds her hands so she doesn't accidentally channel through them.  The world itself is her wand, even though she isn't touching the part of it she wants to use.  It's all already in tune with each other and with her soul; she just needs to tweak it the right way...

Yes, exactly.

"...There we go.  That's better.  Well done."  This time, the shimmering is focused around the book.

"That... wow.  It feels so counterintuitive for me to get into that frame of mind.  But if I can learn to get in it..."

"Not that I'm going to try, but - what's stopping me, or you, from picking up this whole castle?"

"Theoretically, nothing!  Practically, the level of focus required to encompass the entire castle, and the power draw you'd need to lift it, would be too much, as the castle wasn't built for it and neither is the reach of your soul infinite."

"Really, as far as levitation goes, while force to counter force is a reasonable option, it's death practitioners that have the best of it.  If you simply kill the effect of gravity..."

"Now, really, don't give away all my secrets."

"You've done far more than that."

"Have I?  You'll have to remind me, sometime."

"And death magic would be - a different way of thinking about what I'm doing when I have the world as my wand and I'm tweaking it?  I wouldn't want to do it with gravity on the castle anyway; I'd be too worried I'd accidentally turn it off all over the area - or maybe do it unevenly and make it collapse; that's probably more likely given my soul apparently has limited reach."