"Amazing." Savil watches closely with mage-sight. "Abras, you're shockingly good at this kind of creative spell-work. You know that, right?" 

:She's right: Yfandes sends, with a burst of pride. :Most mages can't improvise this way. Much less come up with the idea to try it in the first place: 

"Hey, it was your idea," he says, and ducks his head, but he's smiling too. :Thanks. It's nice, learning things by trying them.:

Savil puts an arm around his shoulders, gives him a squeeze. "Hmm. Anything else we should play around with while we've got a safe area for explosions?" 

He looks out at the ice on the river. "What happens if you try to Fetch something to a location that's underwater? The kind where it goes all at once instead of moving, I mean. Does the water move away as easily as air does? And what if you do it into a rock, is that even possible?"

"I have no idea! The rock version sounds scary - like it might make something explode if it worked - but I guess if it does and you're doing it into the riverbed, the water will be in the way. We should test it with something very small. Want to try Fetching a pebble underwater, to start?" 

"The rock version definitely sounds like the sort of thing that could explode, yeah. I'll try Fetching a pebble underwater."

He picks a pebble near his feet and does that, way out in the middle of the river under Savil's shield, aiming for just below the surface so if it makes a little waterspout or something he'll be able to see it.

It doesn't. However, it does make a little splish of a roughly-pebbled-sized amount of water in the palm of his hand. 

"Huh. Savil, I think it Fetched the water the opposite way. I wonder if it does that with air too; I never would have noticed if it did."

"Oh! That's fascinating, actually. I bet it does, but yes, that would be a lot harder to notice." 

"Think I should try it into the riverbed, see if I get a handful of mud?"

"Sure! Worth checking. Did the Fetching feel any harder than you'd expect to get it underwater?" 

"Not enough to be obvious, but I'll pay attention to it this time." Pebble: into the riverbed, pretty deep so he definitely hits something more solid than liquid.

This does feel harder, like he's hitting up against some kind of resistance, but if he pushes past it, he'll get it to succeed - and get a little ball of wet mud-and-sand that bursts in his hand with a popping sound. 

"It was definitely harder that time," he says, and holds up his handful of mud. He was not expecting, this morning, to be this satisfied about having a handful of mud.

Savil claps him on the shoulder. "Two discoveries in one day! Good work." 

"I think that's everything I want to try today. Thanks for helping me test it safely!" He cleans off his hand in the river, and unless Savil wants to try something they can head home.

"No, I think that's a good day's work." She clambers back up onto Kellan's back.

The next days come and go in almost a routine. He does some work, and fails to do some work, and keeps notes on both. 

Much too early one morning he startles himself awake so hard Yfandes wakes up too. That's not an uncommon occurrence, but this time it isn't the usual run of nightmares. :I had the ice dream again.:

:Oh: She sends a wash of love and reassurance. :Want to come out to the stables? I could do with some snuggles: 

:So could I.: He contemplates bringing a blanket and decides against; he's not going to be able to sleep more tonight and he doesn't want to be picking straw out of the blanket tomorrow.

Once he's snuggled up to Yfandes' warm soft realness, he muses, :I always do the same thing, in the dream. I never remember that I've seen this before, so it never occurs to me to try anything else.: It makes sense, he supposes, that in the same situation with the same information he makes the same choice, but it's frustrating. Why have the same dream so many times if it never changes?

:Hmm. I'm not sure what the usual advice is, here. Yours is a bit unusual for a Foresight dream, in terms of the number of times it's occurred and how, well, specific it is, apparently long-range Foresight is often vague and metaphorical. I did ask Taver about it, earlier, in case you had it again. Apparently there are some tricks for getting more information out of Foresight dreams and visions in general. Have you heard of lucid dreaming?: 

:No, what is it?:

:Well, probably we should just find you the book on it, Taver said there is one, but - I think the idea is you practice noticing whether you're dreaming? Get in the habit of checking while you're awake, and eventually you start remembering to check in your dreams too, and once you know it's a dream you can take control and try different things to see what happens: 

:That does sound useful. I can find out if there's anything in the dream other than what I see by default.: And even if there isn't, maybe it will be easier to go back to sleep afterward if he knows at the time that it isn't really happening.