Savil goes in. 

:All right: she sends a bit later. :I've moved the jug that used to be on the bedside table to somewhere else. Try to figure out where?: Pause. :It might not feel like seeing it at first. If it feels like you just have a guess or a hunch, say that too: 

He shuts his eyes and tries to imagine moving his vision away from his head and through the doorway. :Did you put it on the floor next to the table? . . . On the opposite side from the bed?: It feels like a random guess, but also like a better random guess than anywhere else he could have said.

:Pretty close!: Her mindvoice is pleased, excited. :Hmm - try to visualize where you think it is? And then I'll share my eyes with you, and you can compare: 

He assembles a mental image. It doesn't feel any different from any other mental image.

Savil opens her shields further and shares her senses directly with him. It's...not too far off. More diagonal from than beside the table, but it feels sort of like comparing a drawing done from a weird perspective to the real thing. 

:Drop it and try with a different object?: Savil suggests. 

Huh. That might have just been luck, but it might not have. :Sure.: Long pause. :Did you fold up the blanket on the bed?:

:Bang on! All right - where am I about to set it down?: 

:Uhhhh, next to the door? I might have just heard you moving though. But I don't remember hearing you moving. I still haven't seen anything, to be clear, I'm just making stuff up.:

:That's what Thoughtsensing was like for me when I was learning: Savil confesses. :Partly because it was still awakening and wasn't that strong yet, but still. Yes, by the doorway. Now - what if I show you my eyes again, then I bring my shields up and you try to keep seeing what I was? Just sort of try to hang onto it: 

:Yeah, okay. I hope that doesn't result in me messing with your shields on accident.:

:I think I'll notice if you do: She shares her eyes again, gives him a good long moment to take it in, then blocks it off, leaving only the narrower channel of formal Mindspeech. 

He feels her shields go up, and he "sees" the view through her eyes wink out, and he thinks the one happened a moment before the other, but it could just as easily be his imagination. :I honestly don't know whether that worked or not. Can we try it again, please?:

:Of course, one moment: Her eyes reopen to him and she's standing a few paces over now facing the window. :Got it?: And, shields up. 

:That time I definitely kept seeing it! I dropped it after a couple seconds but it definitely worked. Want to try the previous version again, see if I can get it without borrowing your eyes?:

:Sure! One second, let me move something else: Silence for more like thirty seconds. :All right, try it: 

:Okay.: Thirty seconds of silence on his end, then :You took the pillow off the bed and put it in the corner, and that time I actually saw it for a moment!:

:Good work!: Savil's mindvoice is bright and warm with pride. :Ke'chara, you're doing so well. Hmm. Want to try Seeing something further away?: 

:Sure, like what?:

:Hmm - you could try for that pond you like to swim in?: 

:Okay.: This time he's quiet for quite some time except for the occasional mumbled swearword. Eventually: :I think there's something I don't get. I can start Seeing someplace if I know exactly where it is, but I can't move my viewpoint around without dropping it. I don't know if I'll get it with more practice or if I'm practicing wrong.:

:Huh: Savil, unfortunately, has very little idea what practicing Farsight 'right' is supposed to look like. :Hmm - what does it feel like, when you lose it? Is there a way it feels similar to losing a Mindspeech link or fumbling a spell?: 

:Pretty similar, yeah. I think I'm used to looking at different places by moving my eyes or my head and I keep trying to do that instead of moving the magic.:

:That makes a lot of sense. Hmm – I do think more practice is going to be the answer here, but perhaps by going at it slightly different ways. A good exercise might be to See exactly the spot where you are, but with your eyes closed, and then try lots of different mental motions to slowly move that forward or up. But, I think that might be enough for today: 

She slips out of the ekele, and pulls him into a hug. "Abras, that was really impressive. Why don't you take a break now before your lesson with Starwind?" 

He is pretty sure she's just saying that so he doesn't feel like he's giving up, but he kind of does feel like giving up and he does also want to be ready for his lesson with Starwind, so he thanks her and hugs her back and attempts climbing a tree to keep himself occupied until it's lesson time.

Another week of lessons passes. His Farsight does get more reliable with practice, although it's still prone to dropping in and out when anything distracts him. Starwind takes him just outside the Vale and has him practice tapping nearby ordinary nodes, which behave differently from the Heartstone, and drills him hard on bringing up shields fast when caught off guard, and makes him endlessly repeat his repertoire of offensive spells until they're reasonably solid. 

It's about two weeks until Midwinter when Starwind and Moondance arrive at breakfast together, and both look at him.