"Mine's not persistent, if I trip and don't have good reaction time I still hit the ground."

"I was imprecise, the effect is not persistent but your reliance upon it is."

"Not if I'm sitting down," says Isabella impishly.

"But unless I knew ahead of time only to approach while you were supported by some feature other than your legs, that would not be guaranteed to help."

"True enough."

"Fortunately it isn't so. This variation is far more useful."

"I really hope it can do all that cool synergy stuff - I wonder how many healing girls you have to chain together to get real bone-deep de-aging -"

"Oooh--I don't know but I'll enjoy finding out--it's possible that even if I can't synergize copies of all their powers I could just chain them together, if I were sufficiently gorgeous, but of course that would be much harder to find volunteers for."

"What do you mean chain them together?"

"Synergize them--connect their magics to work together like I would be doing with the copies?"

"I still don't think I'm following the distinction you're drawing between that and synergizing copies."

"If the copies are weaker it might matter."

"Oh, yeah, I guess that makes sense. We could fly out to the desert and get a rock?"

"Probably wise."

"Off we go then. I'm going to be ravenous at dinnertime." She takes a flying leap and leads the way out to some suitably empty space with rocks in it. She picks up a rock and holds it in the air, waiting for the go-ahead.

"Go."

Drop!

Catch?

It - slows down. It doesn't stop.

"That didn't completely not work, so it's not a hard limit. You definitely need a style pro."

"Definitely. I plan to look into it as thoroughly as I can make use of as soon as nothing more urgent is at hand."

"What else urgent is going on?"

"Well, you see, I have a date with a very pretty, intelligent, and thoughtful girl."

Giggle.

"Also, I haven't yet decided that dropping out of school is worth it."

"Would you be allowed?"