"Yes, that's what I meant," Meirion replied, her eyebrows furrowing slightly.

"Ok," she breathed, "Let's take this one step at a time. There will be no rushing. I will demonstrate again, yes?"

With that, Ruane mentally prepared herself.

She reached out towards the block and a watery substance almost took shape at the end of her fingers.

Swirling them slowly, the bubble began to take shape. She lowered the bubble towards the block, enrapturing it in its surface.

Having done that, she released her fingers and retracted it, raising her hand instead.

The bubble, with the block inside, rose casually.

"Any questions?" Meirion asked patiently, as everything resumed back to its original state.

"No," Amy answered, watching the demo carefully. Thank god she was a visual learner, or she would have never survived through any school. "I'll try...."

Carefully, she imagined the block, and then the bubble around it. She reached outward as Ruane had done and her magic being guided by her mind, spread out from her fingers, eveloping around the box slowly.

Using her other hand, she carefully guided the rest of the magic into a spherical shape around the block, and slowly picked it up off the floor a few inches. She knew she was going to practice a lot with this; at the moment, it was difficult to hod the bubble shape around the block....

Meirion watched Amy and broke into a grin, "Excellent stuff!" she congratulated, "You are getting the hang of it, even if you don't think so. More practise and you'll be able to do it without thinking."

She paused and jotted a few notes down. "I feel your magic presence is persistent."

Looking away, she thought for a moment. Ruane turned round and frowned, "Is there anything I can help you with? I feel as if you're missing something, but I don't know what."

Smiling slightly, she asked, "How do you get your energy? Where do you get it?"

"There are different ways in extracting energy from a source for your own benefit," Meirion explained, "So therefore I must know what you do."

"I don't know what I'm missing..." Amy muttered, "But I do have a source. I get my magic from my necklace. If it's broken or damaged, it'll repair itself, but I'll be either weak or unconscious for a while until it's repaired."

"Since my world is linked to three others, my necklace has all four of the worlds' symbols," she added, "That's all I know about it..."

"Necklace?" she asked rhetorically, surprised. This was a first. Others used energy sources, whereas Amy seemed to use a lifeless object. "You seem to rely on it heavily, huh?" she asked, smiling slightly.

Meirion nodded, "You are the first person I've met who uses a necklace. Tell me, have you tried extracting the energy from a life source?"

She paused and waited for Amy's answer.

"No, I've never extracted energy from any other source," Amy mumbled, shaking her head, "Only from my necklace, and from my alter ego, who can extract energy from me as well..."

"My necklace is the only thing that I get my magic from," she added, "I don't know why, but I've always had it since I first recieved magic...."

Meirion considered Amy's reply, "Maybe it's time to think about that then. Even though you've got your necklace and your alter ego, things can go wrong," she commented.

"Ok, so where do you extract energy from, that you know of?" Meirion asked.

She tilted her head, "That's interesting. Although too much dependence can lead to things going wrong," she pondered, "To be honest, I can unlock one passage in your mind to unleash the magic within. Did you know that?"

"I can only extract energy from my necklace and that's it," Amy answered.

"No, the only magic I know that's in me is my alter ego," she added, "But you can unlock something like that in me?"

"Hmm..." Meirion murmured in thought.

"Do you know that for definite?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I have tried it before on a previous student. Julia Dennis, have you met her before?" Meirion questioned, "Well, it doesn't matter if you have or not, but I unlocked her abilities and jump-started her latent powers."

She frowned slightly, "I would think I could do it to you as well, but everyone's different," she managed a wry smile.

Amy hesitated. Was there a bit more to her magic than she thought? "No, I'm not sure..."

"No, I haven't met her yet," she answered.

She pondered for a moment, remembering when she first received her magic. It was four years ago, when she had found that odd ruby stone that gave her the magic.....