Ruava really really should be able to fly whenever she darn well wants to. All this mana she's spent all these years, all the mana she's going to spend, it could be used for so much better things, so much more useful things, to help so many people. There's no sense in this still being a problem, Ruava should just. Fly.

...that was a very definite ripple, and... a hard-to-verbalize sense of something being just out of reach in some indescribable mental direction...

Think of how many people they could help with all this extra mana they're both wasting with flight! The flight blessing she has on herself spends less mana than a spell, sure, but Ruava can't use blessings, so it has to be the spell, and there are so many good things they could be doing instead—they just spent the day healing a village, and that was mostly Ruava's magic and not Kaede's, who knows what they could accomplish—

...and the rippling magic snaps into place and she successfully uses her new blessing-distribution power to give Ruava flight, although since they were both already flying it's not immediately obvious except metamagically.

The blessing-distribution power feels like it can probably do things other than Flight In Particular, and definitely blesses herself as easily as it blesses anyone else, but it isn't immediately clear exactly what it can and cannot do.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeee I got Flight and something eeeeeeelse!" She stops using the elementalist blessing immediately—it is completely unnecessary.

...Ruava giggles. "Flight and what else?"

"I have no clue! I'm just very very sure it's not just that!"

"Yeah, that'd be reasonable, it'd be - sort of weird to hear about somebody who could only give out flight blessings in particular. But it might be, like, you can give out blessings for powers related to movement, or blessings for powers you're familiar with from using them with your own magic, or something totally different, I don't know."

"Hmm..." Telepathy blessing?

There is a thing that it feels like to give out flight, and when she tries to give out telepathy it feels like doing the same thing in a slightly different direction and not quite succeeding, and her blessing-distribution power reacts but doesn't distribute the blessing.

Maybe this is the 'feeling like you're learning how to use your power' component?

Yeah it probably is, but she doesn't want to spend a not-quite-a-slot with telepathy.

"Probably not 'powers I'm familiar with,' telepathy didn't work. Related to movement..." Make herself move faster? Make herself think faster?

Both of those get less of a reaction and none of the not-quite-managing-something feeling.

Hmmmmmmm... "Okay maybe I'm wrong, let me see, let me see..."

Ruava is good at languages, but quite frankly Kaede is not. Having this telepathy would help her tremendously, especially when she inevitably goes to Ruava's world to help her fix it. It would be really cool if she didn't have to recast her telepathy spell each time.

An encouraging wiggle from her new blessing-distribution power.

Come ooonnnnn it was so useful, Ruava even learnt a whole language using it, they can't be effective at fixing everything if language's in the way...

The feeling of not quite succeeding at handing out telepathy is getting clearer and more distinctive. With the feeling plus the behaviour of the magic, the total picture is clearer still. It seems to suggest that she should be contemplating something about telepathy when she hands it out, and how useful it would be does not seem to be the right thing to contemplate.

...hmm. She could think about its definition, as a spell?

Doesn't seem like that's the one either.

Hrrm... Thinks about the incantation, thinks about last time she did it, thinks about things she said...

The memory of what it was like fits neatly into the gap, and ta-daa! Telepathy!

"Ooooh okay I think maybe you were right about it being stuff I've done before."

"It seemed like kinda the right sort of thing for it to be!"

"I can cheat so much with this, though—I just need to invent whatever effect I want and then make it a permanent blessing—this is the best power—"

Ruava giggles.

"You're adorable. - Oh, but - they might be less permanent than they look - they don't go away by themselves, but Light and Light-derived mages can take blessings and curses off of people, it's a really really common power to have. So giving somebody something isn't a guarantee they'll have it forever."

"Is there no way to make them permanent?"