Th- Thank you! [She blushes, flustered at both the thanks and the rush of her first spell.] To be perfectly honest, I was almost certain nothing would happen and I'd just end up looking silly...
Let's see here. [This time, Sayo doesn't resist the urge to snatch the staff, given that she's still riding the high of throwing a miniature fireball from her hands. (She briefly entertains the thought of giving the staff a twirl and tossing it up and down to get used to the feel of an ACTUAL MAGIC STAFF in her hands, but at the last moment remembers how clumsy she could be at the worst possible moments and forces herself to discard the notion.)
If the incantation had worked to direct the flow of aether throughout her body, then... perhaps she should envision this like smoke billowing forth from Beatrice's pipe and forming butterflies. Forehead knit in concentration, she tries to make that odd electric sensation somehow breathe into the staff. While she knows she's the one taking energy from the focus, not the other way around, it's a useful way to envision the flow of aether, and she at least succeeds in making the tip of the staff glow and crackle—although there's not a bolt like before.]
Hmm... While there's more energy within the focus, it's difficult to manipulate it since I have to control it through a medium, as opposed to having an instinctual grasp of the energy that I can produce. Is that a common problem? [Sayo's voice is a 180 from her previous excitement, at least on the surface: academic curiosity and a cold, clinical tone rather than unadulterated glee. There's still a glimmer of barely-restrained enthusiasm, though, if Alisaie looks for it.]
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Let's see here. [This time, Sayo doesn't resist the urge to snatch the staff, given that she's still riding the high of throwing a miniature fireball from her hands. (She briefly entertains the thought of giving the staff a twirl and tossing it up and down to get used to the feel of an ACTUAL MAGIC STAFF in her hands, but at the last moment remembers how clumsy she could be at the worst possible moments and forces herself to discard the notion.)
If the incantation had worked to direct the flow of aether throughout her body, then... perhaps she should envision this like smoke billowing forth from Beatrice's pipe and forming butterflies. Forehead knit in concentration, she tries to make that odd electric sensation somehow breathe into the staff. While she knows she's the one taking energy from the focus, not the other way around, it's a useful way to envision the flow of aether, and she at least succeeds in making the tip of the staff glow and crackle—although there's not a bolt like before.]
Hmm... While there's more energy within the focus, it's difficult to manipulate it since I have to control it through a medium, as opposed to having an instinctual grasp of the energy that I can produce. Is that a common problem? [Sayo's voice is a 180 from her previous excitement, at least on the surface: academic curiosity and a cold, clinical tone rather than unadulterated glee. There's still a glimmer of barely-restrained enthusiasm, though, if Alisaie looks for it.]