Running. It's a thing that humans do. They run. They're good at long-distance endurance, they're not too bad at short distance sprints, and some people run for fun. Like Theo. He's running a 400m dash, he started about 25 seconds ago, and he's about halfway through. That's pretty quick for someone who just started running properly at the beginning of the year. He gets first place. The other runners don't seem thrilled.
"I tell him to exercise more, but does he listen? Noooo. He doesn't." Felix comments, mostly to Tamira. "Okay, feedback loop time?"
"Okay, sure, yeah."
He focuses on his ability to improve things. It's really difficult to focus on a thing that he's never seen and that he didn't properly know about until recently. Maybe just thinking 'I want to improve my improvement' over and over will work?
"Well, that was too much of a cheat." Felix sighs. "The next is testing if you can copy something without knowing what it is. We decided the best if you tried one of my heir gifts. I have seven, Tamira was one, the other six include, control over metal, healing and prophetic visions, there are three you haven't seen yet and one of those is about movement. Try to focus on my unespecified movement magic?"
"... Trying to get the movement thing? That's what I was meant to do, right?"
"Yes, but I saw two things happening, one unfamiliar and one that looked like... a negative-color of your speed improvement."
"I'm not sure, were you trying to do two things? One of which results in you losing speed?"
"Okay then."
He focuses on getting movement like Felix, but not slowing down. Is this any better?
"No negative-color speed. And the other thing is still there. Now the second part of the test."
"My power is either teleportation or portal creation, but we're not going to tell you which one right now. Focus that you want either one of those powers, but only the one that is mine?"
"Okay..."
So he focuses on transport like Felix, specifically either teleportation or portal creation.
"Working. Except it's completely different from the other thing you're getting from Felix. If I had to guess whatever you're getting before was something like... maybe Felix's grace? or some skill like dancing? It wasn't anything super-natural."
He stops focusing on the teleportation and instead works on his eyesight again – sure, teleportation would be useful, but he'd rather have better eyesight for now.
"That's weird? I mean, I was just aiming to get the movement thing that Felix had, so I guess that was pretty vague? I guess I'll have to be careful about that if I'm aiming for a specific skill."
"Keeping a constant improvement mindset in general sounds extremely useful." Fenris squints. "It is so interesting watching another kind of magic. Currently, our magic is stronger, but yours grows. I wonder to what limit... Eyesight?"
"Yeah, I'm doing my eyesight right now. And yeah, teleportation is weird, but I don't know why I would have been getting something else at first."
"Some weird interaction between magic and vagueness?" Fenris shrugs. "I don't regret having magic-seeing, but I wish it was less vague."