Not here. In another reality. Astoria is vastly different from what I dealt with before. [He grins brightly at Takeru’s second attempt. It’s holding steady and hasn’t faded yet.]

Anyway, so far this looks like a good training method. The more you do it the easier it should be. It took most of us about a month to nail the basics of our magic down. It took another month to a month and a half to get fancier things under our belts.