Cinder (Activate) Complete success
Aspect (Detect Magic)
Well, that was a bunch of hocus pocus, and Max's expression reflected his doubt well enough. He was lucky that Serafina couldn't see it, but he hoped she would've gotten a laugh out of it rather than taken offence. This sort of thing might be why he had so much trouble triggering magic, the bowl... visualisation thing didn't feel too intuitive to him.
“Alright,” Max said gamely, deciding to go for it even if it felt kind of foolish. He'd done sillier things on a dare from the jarheads in the army. So he did what she said. Closed his eyes, visualised the bowl... thought about a moment a few weeks ago, he'd given Emily a persistent case of the giggles and now he remembered how she'd sounded, how she'd try to cover her face as she couldn't stop. He forgot to hold the ring in his mind, but something worked. He felt the magic ring sparking off in his hand, and felt the echo of a memory shift into something far more present and real, like he'd just experienced it rather than remembering it.
“Oh,” he uttered, a helpless smile spreading over his face, his mood buoyed to far greater heights than what he'd walked into the shop with. “Shit, that's impressive.”
Aspect (Detect Magic)
Well, that was a bunch of hocus pocus, and Max's expression reflected his doubt well enough. He was lucky that Serafina couldn't see it, but he hoped she would've gotten a laugh out of it rather than taken offence. This sort of thing might be why he had so much trouble triggering magic, the bowl... visualisation thing didn't feel too intuitive to him.
“Alright,” Max said gamely, deciding to go for it even if it felt kind of foolish. He'd done sillier things on a dare from the jarheads in the army. So he did what she said. Closed his eyes, visualised the bowl... thought about a moment a few weeks ago, he'd given Emily a persistent case of the giggles and now he remembered how she'd sounded, how she'd try to cover her face as she couldn't stop. He forgot to hold the ring in his mind, but something worked. He felt the magic ring sparking off in his hand, and felt the echo of a memory shift into something far more present and real, like he'd just experienced it rather than remembering it.
“Oh,” he uttered, a helpless smile spreading over his face, his mood buoyed to far greater heights than what he'd walked into the shop with. “Shit, that's impressive.”