"Sure. Sadde?"

Her hand is still looking distorted in a weird angle.

"What should I do?"

Viera thinks there is a way to shape light-perception magic using their gifts. She describes what her gift feels like and how using invisibility would work.

So it basically convinces the magic that there is nothing there and it should just go around... that might be able to fool the wards, yeah. Sadde tries to make an illusion as if space itself was bending around her hand to enhance visualisation.

And after a while it works!

"So we should test that against perception wards."

Should we stop for a round of tests - including testing Henry against wards - or continue this meeting?

"We should at least continue speaking until we have no new ideas for tests."

Alright. We probably should test all relevant powers against perception wards too. And against Henry's antimagic. Maybe he could learn how to filter things so we have a magic barrier that only works against them.

"Yeah. Okay, so what do we have so far?"

They can use a combination of magic to look at people using love as a connection. This could be possibly expanded upon to allow generalized spying. Sparkles should also get better at perception magic for this purpose.

They know where the hostages are being held. It's apparently a single space station. Some people are being transported there.

Lord is working on a substance to let people acquire stamina and wakefulness gifts.

In general think of plans that allow for stealth, at least to the point where every hostage can be given an enormous amount of lifeforce.

Test interactions between the following: Henry's anti-magic; Felix's empathy; Viera's invisibility; Sparkles' lifeforce transfer; and perception wards. Primarily between that list and perception wards, but it's expedient to see how two kinds of magic interact with each other.

"...you know, it actually might be a good idea to test and get a better idea of our capabilities before continuing."

Yeah, I think we are at that point. And if Lord's mix works then we are going to have even more magic interaction to test.

Even without the mix, more people could end up developing health-based gifts given... the extra incentives.

"Yeah, probably."

So. Magic testing?

Yep!

Testing! Felix performs well on picking targets through detection and sending their locations to Sparkles.

Perception wards can't block Sparkles' lifeforce transfer if she knows in advance what she's aiming at.

Henry lacks the capacity to only block wards. He can block perception magic in an area, but this turns the place into a perception black hole that only Sparkles can navigate.

...which is not altogether useless.

Viera on the other hand can basically generate a better ward with her invisibility, but the way she does it requires more active concentration from her part.

They should try for more gifts, then, right?

People try the meditative exercises, which are harder because they have to convert a lot of health into stamina instead of just accepting ludicrous quantities from Sparkles.

Lord refines the mix to something uncomfortable instead of torturous and now needs volunteers.

During a routine check up they see that Temperance's mom and Adam's uncle were taken into custody.

Adam's stamina gift allows him to "animate" objects and his wakefulness gift makes his voice magically calming.

Which is useful because Temperance takes the mix and gets nothing.