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Kaleb nodded, reassembling some composure. "I think that was my fault," he said, rubbing one hand with the other. "I tried to make it do the jumping thing you did earlier, but I guess whatever I touched the sparks with just turned into a conduit."

Despite the uncomfortable result, he felt a little giddy. "I guess, maybe, it might be possible for me to do something with magic..."

Kaleb shook his head. "I think I just touched it. But you wanted me to try actually doing something, and that's the only thing I could think of that might work..." As much as he agreed with Horace's assessment, social anxiety warred with good sense in the matter. Maybe he could talk to Jeremiah about it, the detective was the one who planted this idea in his head about the possibility of sensing magic.

"I guess what I was feeling was magic after all," Kaleb muttered, a weak smile on his face. "Proof of concept and all, right?"

He stood. "Maybe when we find a portal I could... look at it. Or something."

"You seem like you've got a better idea of what to do though, actually doing magic like that is pretty amazing," Kaleb said, briefly glancing up at the taller student.

His eyes wandered back to the creepy mannequins across the street. Either they were leaning even farther out of the window, or he was merely spooking himself again...

"Yeah, lets go look around, this place is still kinda creepy..."