"Oh, sure! Yeah I guess you can do magic, huh?"

"I haven't tried, but if I recall correctly I had 'a spark', so it seems possible."

"Yeah, sure. What do you wanna do?"

"I'm not sure what's possible to do," he responds. "Can you do things like repainting a wall?"

"I think that's possible? We haven't tried that yet, though."

"Doesn't seem a priori impossible."

"Okay, so, was it – chanting and paper?"

"Yeah."

"Any particular format to it all or should I just try guessing?"

"Guessing is how we've been doing. Call upon something and then declare what we want to do?"

"How does the paper come into it? Read it off the page like a spell?"

"You just need to sorta want to use the paper? And then it's used."

"… Any paper?" He pauses and notices the charged paper in front of Sadde. "– Do the words need to be thematically appropriate?"

"It helps if they are," says Theo. "You can charge a piece of paper by writing a word on it and trying to charge it, some words only work with particular intended meanings, trying to write 'change' so you can change the colour of the wall should work."

William gets a piece of paper and tries writing 'change' on it, then.

Now he has a piece of paper with the word 'change' written on it.

Sadde furrows his brows. "It was supposed to, like, shimmer and ripple. Did you try imbuing it with intent?"

"Possibly not enough?"

He tries again.

Nope.

"Okay that's really weird, Theo can you check him out again?"

Theo shuts his eyes and tries!

No spark.

If he tries for a bit longer?

Nope.

"I can't find anything?"

"Huh. … Are sparks prone to dying out, d'you know?"

He shrugs.