Annei nods. "Uh, can you put me down again to start?"

"Sure!" Annei is gently lowered to the floor.

And there she rearranges herself back into a comfortable kneeling position and starts over, eyes slightly open.

Matilda waits.

Annei goes up two feet, and stops there, and sloooowly opens her eyes the rest of the way without falling.

"Yay!" says Matilda.

Annei beams.

Matilda beams back.

"Is it the same for all of it? Concentrating on what you're trying to do?"

"Pretty much! Sometimes, if I'm trying to do witchcraft in Elcenia, I have to concentrate on not doing it instead. But that part probably won't come up for you unless you're a witch."

"I'm not a witch," confirms Annei. "I do some wizard spells, though, I can tell time and so on. Will it interfere with that?"

"I don't think so. I can't do wizard magic at all so I don't have a good way to check. Try telling time and see what happens?"

Annei casts the time-telling spell.

Annei nods; the time vanishes from the air. "Should I practice anything in particular between now and my lesson, besides floating?"

"You could try floating things that aren't yourself, and try making the light," says Matilda. "Those are both pretty safe even if you don't get them quite right, I think."

"Okay," nods Annei. Float float.

Near the end of the ten degrees, one of the two lights flares up in Matilda's magic vision. Matilda points her out with a little sparkle-flare. "You've caught it too!"

"Congratulations!"

"I never meditated and neither did Lavender, my friend who can fly."

Sarsia nods and concentrates without doing the same thing Annei was trying.

The ten degrees run out without anyone else catching.

"Does anybody look like they might catch with more time, Matilda, or should we call it a day for this batch?" Terali asks.