"… I think that's even less likely?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is."

"Then maybe it was wind," she shrugs. "My point is, I think your thing has to do with that."

"… Does anybody know the forecast for tomorrow?"

"Why?" asks Theo, getting his phone out to look it up.

"Sunny with a chance of sun, I think."

"I was thinking I might see if I could change that. It wouldn't be very reliable as a test but if the weather does something unexpected for a few days then that could at least give indication I could do large effects…"

"– Yeah, sunny," says Theo.

"If you can change the weather that's actually pretty awesome."

"It wouldn't be guaranteed to be me, the weather is sometimes wrong and this thing sometimes seems to screw up anyway… but yeah."

"If my guess is correct doing anything staggeringly unlikely would probably fail to work for too long."

"A week of rain shouldn't be too unlikely – would be annoying since I like the sun – but yeah, something like snow probably wouldn't work."

"I used to like the sun," sighs Theo.

Pat pat.

Eyeroll.

Evelyn smirks.

"Okay, so, preferences for weather? I could try to just do a lower temperature or, like, have it be foggy until mid-morning and then return to usual, or…?"

"Foggy until mid-morning works I guess? There should be other tests you could perform to—try to make someone else call you, and then try to make a specific person call you. Someone who's likely to call anyway. And then... try to make someone who's unlikely to call you do?"

"Oh, yeah, there are definitely smaller-scale tests, I was just thinking it might be useful to try some large-scale things, see if I have a hard limit on size if this is how it works."

"Yeah, makes sense."

Soooo, how about she try making it go foggy tomorrow morning.

There is absolutely no feedback.

"Are you gonna try to do the calling people thing? And do you have more ideas for tests?"

"I am going to do the calling people thing! I was trying the weather thing and I have no idea if it worked or not but at least I didn't end up losing focus."

She tries the calling people thing. She picks Oliver, one of her friends.

Ring ring.

She looks at the caller ID! Is it in fact Oliver?

Whaddaya know, it is!