"So did it work?"

"Yeah," says Theo. "It definitely hovered longer that time."

Evelyn turns to him as he speaks – then sighs again and picks up the key.

"Okay so you can make stuff float. That's actually pretty rad." She grabs the pen, and puts it on her hand palm up. "Make this float from here?"

This all feels extremely ridiculous – magic, extremely weird – but she does try.

It is not significantly harder than making the key float.

Then it's not all that long until she starts staring at dust motes again.

Theo snaps his fingers.

"Apparently it works, then."

"And I have a hypothesis about what the relevant powers here are."

"Looks like all we've shown is a weird telekinesis…?"

"Not quite. There was wind, and the key got caught on her finger once, and it was all very plausibly deniable until it wasn't."

"The wind I was counting as part of the weird telekinesis, and the key getting caught – yeah, plausibly deniable until not."

"So… ability to, at the least, do some telekinesis and wind manipulation, with the constraint that it all has to be plausibly deniable or else I forget about it?"

"Do you have any friends you talk to fairly often? Perhaps daily? Or weekly? Bonus points if they're likely to call you at any point during the day."

"… I have a bunch I speak to relatively frequently, and then 'has a chance of calling me out of the blue' stretches to– like, half the school?"

"Try to do the thing you did to the key and the pen, but this time to the event 'someone will call you.' Make it general, to start."

"Just literally. Anyone will call me, try to make it happen?"

"Yeah."

So she does.

… She's not really sure how to do this, since the telekinesis thing was much more obvious.

And yet, ring her phone does.

"– Should I pick up?"

"I think so."

She does! It is a friend who is asking if she wants to go shopping tomorrow and also does she need some drinks or something brought to the party because like that can be done.

It's a pretty short conversation.

"Try it again."

She does!