Weeks pass, and he doesn't catch a single card.
When cards become active, he goes looking. They just disappear before he gets there.
He's getting worried, and he's not sure he's satisfied with Kero's explanations.
He tries to focus on school.
"That's actually true, apparently all you have to do is rhyme while calling on things in a grandiose manner."
"What kind of thing? Fire, earth, water, wind, light, dark, uh...bigness? Flying? Going-through-things-ness?"
"You can call on specific stuff like the concepts the cards are connected with, but that's not always the best way to do things."
"I only just started learning sorcery so I wouldn't know what the best way to do things is. Oh, and there's a sort of—lifeforce thing?—which the cards don't use, apparently, but regular sorcery does."
"Do different clans have different books? How do people learn? What happens if you run out, do you die?"
"No, you start getting weird effects, your will works less well the less lifeforce you have."
"I'm curious about the first question, too, are there different books? Are there books at all?"
"There are books, yeah. Everyone does magic differently, though, not everyone can get it to work in the same way. Specialties can confuse the issue."
"Right, you mentioned that. Some people are naturally better with some types of magic than others," she explains to the other two.
"Kero, does this have to do with the sun and moon thing you mentioned?"
"Some people have Sun magic and some people have Moon magic. They're kind of like, big specialties. Both have one attribute and two elements. Sun is over Light, Earthy, and Firey. Moon is over Dark, Windy, and Watery. Kero is the guardian beast of the Sun, my specialty is Sun magic. You both have something too, I bet, if you're sorcerers. Kero, what do they have, can you tell?"
"...yeah, that one is kind of obvious, huh. I don't know, Stiles only told me all this later, after I was done meditating."
"Right, I mostly knew that. And there should be a guardian beast of the Moon, there's supposed to be one of each. Clow Reed had mastered both kinds of magic."