"I do apologize." He didn't add that he hadn't meant to disturb her; if he hadn't meant to disturb her, he wouldn't have said anything at all. A slight gesture lifted the rocks again, one after another, and left them hovering in air. "I should thank you for not flinging any of these at my head, I think. Everyone around me, when I was young, would have been plus one concussion, displeased to be so, and quite probably retaliating. Your method is so much more likely to make friends."