"Try saying that again, this time with feeling?"

"Huh?"

"That thing you just said, 'wind do my bidding' or something."

"Wind, do my bidding," he tries.

He doesn't seem to think it's very likely it'll work.

...bit of a breeze?

"Okay did we imagine that do it again and mean it."

So he tries it again, and this time he actually seems to mean it some more!

"Wind, do my bidding," he says. He doesn't say it particularly forcefully, though, because he doesn't know how strongly it'll act, and maybe it depends on how forcefully he says it.

Yes. Definitely a bit of a breeze. "Okay, if it was that easy all along I am going to kick myself so hard. Wind, do my bidding!" More breeze.

"Wind, do my bidding!" Juniper tries, and yep, moving air alright.

"Wind, do my bidding!"

...nope.

"Aww."

Jess tries it too, and fails, predictably.

Maya does likewise and gets a bit of movement.

"Okay why didn't we try this before. Theo why didn't we try this before."

"I don't know?" he says. "… I hope Kero doesn't have some sort of 'curiosity suppression field'. That'd be annoying."

"It would be very annoying but I'm pretty sure I'd've noticed it."

"And if you didn't try anything at all you shouldn't beat yourself up for not having tried this specific thing."

And presently they have arrived.

So people get out and Theo opens the door to his house.

Tyler appears at the top of the stairs. "Hi," he says.

"Hello! We can do magic! Look! Wind, do my bidding!"

Breeze.

"You did it?" Kero asks, flying down. "How?"

"Apparently by bothering to try anything."

"Not anything, Latin didn't work," Juniper points out.

"Okay, yeah, but you didn't try phrases like that, right?"

"'Like that'?"

"A phrase in Latin that means 'wind, do my bidding', since that's the only thing we have confirmed to work so far – I think you said you just did words?"

"Yeah pretty much. Do you know any Latin?"