Amanda grunted and rolled her eyes. Lifting rocks? She had gotten better practice than that as a kid, when she would lift her toy blocks up with her magic. It had been, as far as she knew, the first time her parents ever saw her use magic.
Dad hadn't stuck around long after that.
Amanda sighed and headed over to the rocks. Sah did have a point that lifting heavier weights would help her powers grow stronger. But that still didn't mean she was going to play fair.
She started lifting the rocks, a couple at a time. The first few she telekinetically lifts and tosses aside without problem. Though she could immediately feel the difference in weight as Sah pulled them back downwards. So she figured that if he was going to mess with her by pulling downward, she'd find a way to use that to her advantage.
Telekinesis, she had learned, wasn't just about moving objects. It was about force. Most people, from what she knew, tended to just push or pull or lift with it. But force could do so much more.
When she lifted one of the slightly heavier rocks, she stretched out another thread of telekinesis, reaching around to find where Sah was focusing his power. She could sense his power as a sort of resistance to hers, like trying to push two magnets together. The opposing forces pushed against each other, making it impossible for her to push in harder against Sah's more powerful magic. But once she knew where his force was pulling, she could use it against him.
She channeled two weaves of telekinetic energy. One reached from the rock up to a sturdy tree branch. The other reached from the other side of the branch down to where she could feel Sah's telekinetic pull. She latched her two weaves together, like tying off a rope.
The effect was similar to a pulley. As Sah pulled downwards with his magic, she held onto his force with hers, but instead of fighting against him, she allowed him to pull her energy along with his. This pulled harder on the telekinetic "rope" of magical energy, over the tree branch, and turned into an upward pull on the rock.
As a result, Sah's own strength ended up lifting the rock for her.
She crossed her arms with a smirk. There were still limits to how far she could push this...even if she wasn't the one doing the lifting, it took a lot of strain on her part to hold the weaves together. But it allowed her to "lift" a rock that was heavier than she ever could have done on her own. Even if Sah was technically the one doing all the work.
Dad hadn't stuck around long after that.
Amanda sighed and headed over to the rocks. Sah did have a point that lifting heavier weights would help her powers grow stronger. But that still didn't mean she was going to play fair.
She started lifting the rocks, a couple at a time. The first few she telekinetically lifts and tosses aside without problem. Though she could immediately feel the difference in weight as Sah pulled them back downwards. So she figured that if he was going to mess with her by pulling downward, she'd find a way to use that to her advantage.
Telekinesis, she had learned, wasn't just about moving objects. It was about force. Most people, from what she knew, tended to just push or pull or lift with it. But force could do so much more.
When she lifted one of the slightly heavier rocks, she stretched out another thread of telekinesis, reaching around to find where Sah was focusing his power. She could sense his power as a sort of resistance to hers, like trying to push two magnets together. The opposing forces pushed against each other, making it impossible for her to push in harder against Sah's more powerful magic. But once she knew where his force was pulling, she could use it against him.
She channeled two weaves of telekinetic energy. One reached from the rock up to a sturdy tree branch. The other reached from the other side of the branch down to where she could feel Sah's telekinetic pull. She latched her two weaves together, like tying off a rope.
The effect was similar to a pulley. As Sah pulled downwards with his magic, she held onto his force with hers, but instead of fighting against him, she allowed him to pull her energy along with his. This pulled harder on the telekinetic "rope" of magical energy, over the tree branch, and turned into an upward pull on the rock.
As a result, Sah's own strength ended up lifting the rock for her.
She crossed her arms with a smirk. There were still limits to how far she could push this...even if she wasn't the one doing the lifting, it took a lot of strain on her part to hold the weaves together. But it allowed her to "lift" a rock that was heavier than she ever could have done on her own. Even if Sah was technically the one doing all the work.
