Theo snaps his fingers.

"Apparently it works, then."

"And I have a hypothesis about what the relevant powers here are."

"Looks like all we've shown is a weird telekinesis…?"

"Not quite. There was wind, and the key got caught on her finger once, and it was all very plausibly deniable until it wasn't."

"The wind I was counting as part of the weird telekinesis, and the key getting caught – yeah, plausibly deniable until not."

"So… ability to, at the least, do some telekinesis and wind manipulation, with the constraint that it all has to be plausibly deniable or else I forget about it?"

"Do you have any friends you talk to fairly often? Perhaps daily? Or weekly? Bonus points if they're likely to call you at any point during the day."

"… I have a bunch I speak to relatively frequently, and then 'has a chance of calling me out of the blue' stretches to– like, half the school?"

"Try to do the thing you did to the key and the pen, but this time to the event 'someone will call you.' Make it general, to start."

"Just literally. Anyone will call me, try to make it happen?"

"Yeah."

So she does.

… She's not really sure how to do this, since the telekinesis thing was much more obvious.

And yet, ring her phone does.

"– Should I pick up?"

"I think so."

She does! It is a friend who is asking if she wants to go shopping tomorrow and also does she need some drinks or something brought to the party because like that can be done.

It's a pretty short conversation.

"Try it again."

She does!

Yep, there it goes, ringing again.

Another conversation. Same person says they totally forgot but they were wondering if their boyfriend from out of town could come too? She sort of assumed yes but she didn't actually ask and she was totally planning to and she hopes she's not interrupting Evelyn while she's busy or anything.

Again, a brief conversation.

Sadde just taps her finger against her chin.

"So I can make somewhat-unlikely events happen too. On demand."

"My hypothesis here is actually that that's your magic. Making things more likely."

"… So I'm not super into physics but I'd expect it to be quite unlikely for some wind to just conveniently make something hover."

"I don't think it was wind, but like, quantum mechanics? There's technically a nonzero chance that anything will happen, including stuff failing to obey gravity for a fraction of a second. In very simplified terms."