"You'll do fine." she assured him with a chuckle. "Magic is really very simple at its core. It's the force that gives the wind direction and the energy of every plant in spring. It exists side by side with all of us, it just take a special sort to utilize it. Most have to be born with what they call the third sight, the ability to see the paths of energy that make up the world. Some merely have to have the drive.” Gwen was reciting what her mother told her when she was a child while they sat beneath the oak tree by their home. She still remembered that day, it was the first time she made a pine cone levitate and her mother had been so pleased with her.<br/><br/>Wordlessly she grabbed the gems with one hand and tossed them into the air, just as they reached her palm they froze and began rotating around her hand. She reached into her dress and pulled out a pouch of sand pouring a small amount into her cupped palm.  “Now.” Another wave of her hand and the sand particles began to solidify into spikes extending out to the rotating gemstones. It moved with them. “The sand is surrounding the energy that is extending from my palm. Think of it as wooden beams supporting a building. It extends out from the base, in this case my palm and then outwards supporting each gem as it rotates.”<br/><br/>With a soft exhalation the sand was blown off her palm yet the gems remained. Slowly she lowered her hand and the stones followed and one by one began to clatter to the table. “I don’t expect you to handle all six, branching out energy like that causes the overall bands to become weaker.” Gripping his hand she cupped it as hers had been and poured sand into his palm then placed a gem on top.<br/><br/>“Now close your eyes and visualize a pillar being built slowly raising the gem higher into the air. It will feel like a sort of tingling following this vein.” She traced it to the center of his palm. “Only build it as high as you can manage while keeping tingling strong. If it begins to fade draw back.”