"Okay. Oh! Hey, new trick." Charlie put aside Isabel's departure for now, and pulled extra ropes out of her bag. "Watch."

Carefully, she lifted all three ropes at once, and then closed her eyes, making them dance around in a circle, like she'd done for Johnny. Concentrating very hard, she lit each one, one after the other. "See? Patterns help. Like learning chords, before trying to play a song."