Three h—nope, she lost it. Two and a half hours, maybe, if she winds it all the way back up again.

Two and a half hours, okay. In that case she will go back to scaling with that for a while, and then when she gets bored of twist twist twist slip, whoops she'll spend a while working on her maximum complexity.

It gets easier with practice, both in the sense that she learns how to use the magic and in the sense that the magic gets more convenient to use. And she can benefit from practice wiggling particular shapes through the magic; the path and the parts where it catches aren't exactly the same every time, but they're similar enough to be recognizable.

If she's willing to sink some serious time into it, she can learn how to manifest all of that.

Well, not all at once. She sketches out the parts she's not actively working on, so she doesn't forget, and works on one piece at a time. Once she's gotten the bracelet down she'll work on generating larger volumes of object.

Her volume capacity has been increasing bit by tiny bit, but when she actively works on it in particular, it starts going a little faster.

This is less interesting than working on complexity's careful wiggles or duration's tricky twists. She switches to mass after less time than she spent on the more interesting two. And then, getting tired of aching quite as much as she is, she peels the black rose out of her, takes a Tylenol, and emails Cass to see if she knows anything about how the roses might interact with things like drug overdoses, addiction and withdrawal. On the grounds that it seems like something that someone with roses might experiment with, she is careful to clarify, not because she strikes her as someone who would have any experience with that kind of thing in a less floral context.

Who, me? :D

Most of what I've tried is painkillers, and those work okay except on the black flower for some reason, I haven't gotten exciting enough about it to tell if the flowers do anything for addiction.

"How're you doing?" Edie asks, having come in shortly earlier.

"I'm fine. Apparently painkillers work on all but the black and white ones, which is unfortunate considering that they pretty definitively need it the most. How are you doing?"

"...Also fine. I maintain that trying out the black and white rose was the right decision, but I'm not planning on doing that again until I've built up my pain tolerance." She pushes back her sleeve to reveal a blue blossom on her wrist. "In other news, telekinesis is excellent."

"As long as you're okay. You know there's no hurry on any of this, right? It's not like we're actual magical girls with monsters of the week and an impending boss fight. Don't push yourself."

"I appreciate your concern, but I'll be fine."

"I don't think you're doing yourself harm right now, just--make sure it stays that way, okay?"

"...Yeah."

Well, that's vaguely unsatisfactory. Is there a limit to the number of nearby small light objects she can move short imprecise distances?

The limit starts out at one. If she practices and tries hard, she can increase that limit, along with the limits on how big and heavy and far the objects can be. Her mental grip gets 'stronger' and her mental reach gets 'longer', slowly but steadily, as she works.

Can she do a little of this while also getting her up-till-now neglected homework done, it's not as interesting as conjuring and Professor Roth is not particularly forgiving of late assignments.

Absolutely.

Conjuration and telekinesis work together very neatly indeed!

If she works mostly on complexity and duration and drops all the non-conjured items she was futzing with, can she simply toss newly-formed items into the pile of floaty things?