--- Lily ---
Things were going smoothly now. In fact, from Appoline's perspective they were going too smoothly. "How are you managing the shapes so well here? The spinning makes sense because you can just sort of force them into orbit with the density of your mana, fine. The first few layers of the net, well it took you a bit… but now you're forming the shapes with seemingly no effort even though your face tells a different story," asked Appoline.
"Um… sort of cheating?" offered Lily.
"Hey," Appoline gestured as if she was making a slice directly through the air. "If you're 'cheating' in such a way that I cannot detect and clearly has no effect on the potion that I can see? Then I don't think I can consider it cheating,"
