...well that's some wind alright.

...that was very surprising.

And surprises are very interesting.

Temple tries it again.

It works again!

Ok. He will try it once more this way. Then... Temple thinks, he will try in the hallway closet. Then he will try in the bathroom. Does it still work?

Yyyup.

Temple is nearly bursting with delight. MAGIC! Actual magic!

Well, the sink gives him an idea. He fills a water bowl and places it in the shower.

"Water, come forth, flow and wave as my will commands it!"

...it stirs a little.

Temple tries again with less water.

It stirs about exactly as much!

Temple shrugs. New experiment idea:

"Water!" Is all he says, and the he wills it to move.

Mmmmmaybe it vibrates a tad.

Okay. Maybe it needs instructions or something. Also, maybe Temple should try something that isn't moving

"Water, by my will I command you to... chill," Temple decides to rhyme at the last moment, magic always rhymes in stories and he did take the idea from a book.

It definitely becomes a bit colder, if he touches it. Not, like, freezing, but maybe a few degrees.

So it can do other things. Temple should test this very empirically, maybe make charts and think of a dozen variations for a test.

But it would be more fun to just try new things.

"Water, I command you to glow!"

...nah.

It's okay random bowl of water, you are allowed not to glow, Temple just discovered magic! Temple will try see if he can move the water without calling it specifically.

"By my will I command you to flow and wave!" Temple says in the hammiest way possible.

Nnnope.

Okay, now he will try something more scientific. He thinks of a few experiments.

"Wind," he says while pointing at water, "by my will I command you to flow and wave!"

"H2O, by my will I command you to flow and wave!"

"Liquid, by my will I command you to flow and wave!"

The first generates a soft breeze, the second makes the water stir a bit, the third does nothing at all.

And what happens if he keeps repeating the magical words over and over, can he get the water move where he wants? If he says "Wind and Water" can he command two elements at once? If he keeps asking water to chill does it progressively get colder and eventually freezes? Does it freeze if he asks it to freeze? What if he calls upon earth (using dirt from a vase)? Can he ignite a piece of paper in the fireplace? He gets a coin and tries to move it using the command "Metal, my will commands you to move!" then he replaces the world "metal" with others (earth, mineral, copper), what results does he get? Can he move something made of plastic by calling upon plastic?

Repeating the magical words helps not at all if they're all part of the same "unit of intent," and merely repeating the "spell" many times makes the same effect happen many times. Saying "Wind and Water" does let him move both elements at once, and a little bit better than each separately. Asking the water to chill repeatedly does eventually get it close to freezing—

—and then it blows up into steam (fortunately not on his face) and he can't do any magic anymore.

What? Not at all.

Temple tries and fails.

He paces and paces, did he imagine the whole thing? No, he didn't. He checks the book for any clue and after five minutes of reading and not finding anything useful he tries again.

The wind moves! And a bunch of flower petals appear out of nowhere right in front of him.

The hell? Temple thinks, but he smiles. He checks the petals.

What happens if he tries to move the air again?