"When we were already out?"

"Yeah."

Shrug. "Probably not too expensive to try again."

"Yeah. Got paper?"

He fetches a couple of sheets off a nearby jotter pad and hands them to Sadde, plus a pen.

So Sadde writes 'Wind' on one and... furrows his brows at it. "I... think it's working, actually?"

"… Continuously? As in, still feeding stuff in, it's not just a as-you-write-it?"

"Yes."

"Any chance you get a mana bar too?"

"—a what now?"

"I was hoping you'd get some convenient complementary knowledge of how much energy you're still able to put in."

"Don't seem to, no."

The paper has not stopped rippling and shimmering like it does when being written on.

"It might end up unusable if you drain all your mana on it. So, maybe don't do that."

"Right." He stops. "I wonder how much better this is..."

"You charged – Wind? … We could try with a flight spell, maybe?"

So he tries that! With the simplest spell they have.

It lasts a bit longer!

"… That seems like it might not be very much gain for what you put in."

"Well I put only a few seconds in, and I got more seconds out of it than I put in," he shrugs.

"Mm," he shrugs. "It seems near-instant just writing it regularly but yeah, okay."

"Yeah. I guess writing it instantly takes some, like, constant amount of magic, and then anything else has to be charged? That—could explain how one'd get stuff as powerful as these cards."

"Maybe we should see if we can charge one up in increments, stop charging and then continue."

He tries that.

Answer is: yep.

"Okay, so not really mana limited – and maybe we should see if I can charge up one you write, see if it's transferable."

"What do you mean, not mana limited?"

"It's not limited to your current reserves of mana, the max you can charge a piece of paper is not your maximum mana, possibly, since you can recharge over time and hopefully dump more in later."