"I would be glad to teach you," she tells him. "It is tricky, at first. Sometimes it can be stubborn even when you have had plenty of experience." Like the dough she made the other day.

Eventually, dinner and the clean up afterward is finished and she glances at him, flushes faintly. "Should I set up a kind of practice circle? It will let you feel if you are getting too far from the Rod of the Sun."