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Belle studies magic.

It's tricky. Getting into and out of her rose-sphere is routine after a few days, but she still hasn't uncovered an explanation of how channeling works, though she's been informed that there are three options for how to do it (by herself, through a willing helper, or through an unwilling helper). Unlike the fourfold options for reaching the Dreamworld, this does not tell her how to begin fumbling towards a practical understanding, even though she can rule out the last one just on the basis of its description.

Beast can only do so a tiny bit of reading per day, and her pile of books that she can read shrinks much faster than his. She combs the library for multilingual dictionaries, so she can pick her way through the titles of the foreign-language books and at least prioritize them before handing them over.

Finally something in an obscure language that even Beast can barely read - Belle has to look up a lot of words - explains the channeling in a way she can understand.

Date: 2013-03-12 04:44 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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To channel through oneself, the enchanter approaches his (many of these books, despite their own illustrations, seem convinced that all magic users are male) Dream-world from the inside. He must make a Dream-gate at the borders of his mind, bring power through himself from whatever source he chooses, and channel it out of the gate and into the spell.

Date: 2013-03-12 05:00 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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It does!

The Heart refers to emotions, her own or other people's - apparently using either the caster's emotions or the channel's is most efficient, but anyone present or connected to the spell can work. The Will is the caster's intentions, which if properly focused and sufficiently strong can power some small spells all by themselves.

Date: 2013-03-12 08:03 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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The other two power sources are also explained, but in less accessible terms. Apparently Earth power comes out of the ground, and can be substituted for Heart and vice versa in a pinch, although the greater the amounts of power involved, the riskier it is to make such substitutions. Sky power comes from the sun, or (rarely) the moon or stars, and is similarly not-quite-interchangeable with Will.

There are further explanations of how to connect to each of these power sources, starting with Will, which is apparently the easiest; the caster need only focus very hard on the desired goal, and the power will become available to send through the Dream-gate. Similarly Heart, using one's own emotions, is just a matter of keeping the emotion and the spell in focus at the same time.

Using someone else's emotions is trickier. Apparently you have to touch their mindscape. There is a separate chapter on how to do that.
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Date: 2013-03-12 08:07 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)
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He shrugs agreeably.

Date: 2013-03-12 08:33 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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Power flows out of her, in three streams that twine and tangle together, bright blue and indigo and turquoise. It slides around the rose and out into the world beyond her mindscape.

Pushing the power out of her mind stings a little, like being slapped very lightly, but all over and not fading with time.

She doesn't have to keep it up for long, though. This spell only needs a brief jolt of power to get it going. And then Belle sees her father.

Date: 2013-03-12 08:40 pm (UTC)
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"You did," the Beast agrees. "And you glowed in pretty colours."

Date: 2013-03-12 08:42 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)
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He shrugs. "You can put the next one through me if you want. See what it's like."

Date: 2013-03-12 08:45 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)
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The Beast squirms in his enormous chair, then settles, watching her again.

Date: 2013-03-12 08:48 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)
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He chuckles and shakes his head. "Not nervous, no."

Date: 2013-03-12 08:50 pm (UTC)
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He rumbles thoughtfully for a moment, then says, "Restless."

Date: 2013-03-12 08:54 pm (UTC)
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Snort. "Oh, I'm always restless."

Date: 2013-03-12 09:01 pm (UTC)
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"I hadn't heard a voice not my own in a century and a half when you came," he says. "I haven't touched another person in just as long." With a twist of a smile on his surprisingly expressive face, "Wrestling rosebushes just isn't the same."

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