"Expectations more than opinions, but a bit of both. And I can manage more tangible effects, for shallow stuff---heal a scrape, open a scar, or---or push pigments so that they're somewhere else on the spectrum." It's an admittedly odd sphere, and stranger still for being between 'sympathetic' and 'blood' magic, but it's always made sense to Sam... Even if explaining isn't easy. "You and I have got to sit and talk shop sometime soon. Party's not the best place for it, but hell's bells! I'm glad I didn't learn later. All of this just got a little less lonely."

The gorl's grin softened, until she again glanced at Elsa, one eyebrow up.

"Am I looking at an example?"