Matilda contemplates this problem. Around and around and around goes the magic.
Understand, she tells herself. Properly.
The place the magic is going has a different kind of magic already there, the kind of magic that shrens and dragons have. But there's a part of it that's empty, and that part is pulling desperately on her magic to fill itself, but it can't keep anything it steals, it just flings it all right back out.
The empty part of the magic is the part that keeps Jensal alive.
That's no good.
But it can function on stolen power, it's just the fact that it keeps flinging it everywhere that's a problem. If it could just learn to keep her magic then it could use that instead of what it's missing and there would be no more problem at all.
Understand. Understand. Understand. Will it work?
Yes.
"The weird thing it's doing is because some of your magic is missing and it was stealing from your wings to make up for that but now it's stealing from my magic instead, and the missing part is the part that keeps you alive, so I shouldn't stop giving it magic, but I can make it stop throwing the magic away and then it'll be fine and it won't need to steal anything and your wings will work and you won't die," she says. "So I'm going to do that."
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Matilda contemplates this problem. Around and around and around goes the magic.
Understand, she tells herself. Properly.
The place the magic is going has a different kind of magic already there, the kind of magic that shrens and dragons have. But there's a part of it that's empty, and that part is pulling desperately on her magic to fill itself, but it can't keep anything it steals, it just flings it all right back out.
The empty part of the magic is the part that keeps Jensal alive.
That's no good.
But it can function on stolen power, it's just the fact that it keeps flinging it everywhere that's a problem. If it could just learn to keep her magic then it could use that instead of what it's missing and there would be no more problem at all.
Understand. Understand. Understand. Will it work?
Yes.
"The weird thing it's doing is because some of your magic is missing and it was stealing from your wings to make up for that but now it's stealing from my magic instead, and the missing part is the part that keeps you alive, so I shouldn't stop giving it magic, but I can make it stop throwing the magic away and then it'll be fine and it won't need to steal anything and your wings will work and you won't die," she says. "So I'm going to do that."