[I'm glad Ox is here to be responsible when Rita is mostly a slob and would just leave them out.
She flips open one book -- a science text about electricity and circuits, and turns to a page with an illustration of a light bulb and an explanation of basic circuits, complete with a diagram. She places a hand on the page and focuses...]
[She opens it up and starts drawing... well, it looks like a light bulb, like the illustration she was just looking at. She starts with the outline, and focuses as she presses the pen to the page...
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[The answer is no.]
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[Anyway, she's cleaned her plate (thoroughly, at that), so she's putting it aside and getting up to go gather some books.]
Okay, let's see what we can figure out about this power.
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When I use mine I focus on the object I need to. Maybe focus on something in the book and see what happens?
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She flips open one book -- a science text about electricity and circuits, and turns to a page with an illustration of a light bulb and an explanation of basic circuits, complete with a diagram. She places a hand on the page and focuses...]
... I'm not really getting anything.
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[They run off to the scrapbooking room and come back with a small blank journal and a pen.]
Try focusing while you draw something?
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[She opens it up and starts drawing... well, it looks like a light bulb, like the illustration she was just looking at. She starts with the outline, and focuses as she presses the pen to the page...
... and then it's gone.]
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Huh?
[she holds up her empty hand.
next to the beginnings of a lightbulb-shaped outline is an ink drawing of a pen, much like the one she was just holding.]
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Immediately grabbing a coaster from nearby and excitedly handing it to Rita.]
Try this.
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It disappears into the page, which now depicts an image of the same coaster.]
Eureka...
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[They're happy for you, Rita.]
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-- Right, yeah. I'll have to practice and see just how far I can go with this.
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Yeah, of course. You can use anything in the scrapbooking room you need, and if you need anything special just let me know and I'll get it for you.
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I'd better get to work, then.
[she takes the journal, gets up, and goes to the scrapbooking room.
bye.]
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