With a flick of concentration, Dorian lit up the web of magic around the rocks still floating between him and Corbie, so the spells would be visible to naked eyes. There were other ways, but this was easiest. "Currently one spell, holding them all. Shape it as you like, shuffle them around within it," for example, a ring so they floated in a circle, "but they remain bound together. To move one away from the rest, it must be separated."

Another smooth hand motion wrapped a smaller field of magic around one rock and neatly pulled it out of the ring. "Holding two spells is easier than six, and it's easily merged back into the original array if you've a mind."