It's just like any relationship," Rain told him with a grin, while Aldrin practiced over and over again. "You need to coax her, persuade her, impress her, not knock her over the head with a mallet. Sometimes, for complicated things, you even need to grovel a little—but I'll teach you that later, some of the syllables in Basilica can take weeks to learn correctly. For now, keep trying to catch her eye in silence."" But magic is only converted energy and emotion," Aldrin reminded him. "I already possess it, I only need to use it."" And just how do you want to take ten minutes' running energy or you're liking for the color blue, and throw it out in front of you as an arrow-stopping shield, hm?