The Magic Starts In Your Mouth
The magic starts in your mouth. Don't be afraid to let it out. It won't live very long once it's out in the world.
It doesn't need a lot of time to do its thing because it doesn't do very much. It might warm a little breeze a few degrees.
Or fall to the ground and make little pink lump of clay.
A little warm breeze probably won't be noticed. But don't start thinking that all magic is a waste of time and resources.
A little pink lump of clay, as unimpressive as it is, might be pretty special to someone when they find it.
They might pick it up and put it in their coat pocket, and finger it when they feel nervous.
Or a child might find it and eat it, enjoying the slippery fizziness as it rolls across their tongue. Don't worry, magic is OK to eat.
You can't control what magic you create. It's all harmless and mostly not noticable, so just let it happen.
Everybody does it, and sometimes it can brighten one's day.
We've all been in a place, for example, on a bus, or sitting around the dinner table, when magic starts happening to everyone at once and the air is suddenly
populated by little flitting things being wafted by the warm breezes. If anything, we wish it would happen more often.
We know that if magic could be created more slowly, it would be stronger magic.
There are scurrilous grifters who sell dietary supplements that they claim can slow down the creation of magic, and
thus create magic that is far more potent than a warm whiff or a lump of pink clay. Those dietary supplements are pure quackery.
But some people, after years of practice, can use meditation to attain a very slight slow-down of magic production,
resulting in a small increase of the power of the magic. However, instead of the magic coming out, it goes in.
After a circuitous route through various bodily pathways, it gets dissolved in your lymph and drained into your bloodstream.
Fortunately, magic has no effect on the lymphatic system or any other internal body function.
Generating large-scale magic is simply not something humans can or should do. Let's just enjoy the small magic that we can create with no effort at all.
Tiny
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