"So how," I asked, "does mental magic work?"
Grandpa activated his privacy artifact, and I made sure nobody was around.
"I don't know how to explain it," Grandpa said, pausing. "It's an ability you either have or don't, like rolling your tongue."
Yeah, I'm absolutely unable to do that.
It's not like it's an impediment for anything, mind.
"So, do you do it without even knowing what exactly you're doing?"
Like my conversations with dead people.
Still gives me the creeps, and I'm the one doing it.
"Something like that," Grandpa said. "But not exactly. There are spells, and rules. It's just… you have to see and create spells of that type. They're not ordinary spells, not like any other. Only people with specific magical channels can do it. And, although channels are in many ways shaped
