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Your grandma shakes her head sadly.

"I suppose—that's a little like asking where the light from a star goes after the star dies. Whatever light it had already produced keeps on traveling, and then it simply doesn't make anymore. I don't know if our magic works quite like a star, but I believe it may not be too far off from that analogy."

At that moment, your grandma turns back towards her desk. Uncertainly, you follow her gaze—and you see that her attention seems to have shifted to the array of computer parts sitting in front of her.

"Magic is just another form of energy," your grandma tells you, now focusing on one of her monitors. "If it can exist in the world around us, then I don't think there's any reason it can't be moved, or manipulated—or transformed, even. If you can store electricity in a battery, then why can't you do the same with magic? Why can't you choose where to store it?"

You're not sure you have an answer. Regardless, you don't get a chance to say anything as she carries on.

"Like I said before, I've been researching magic for a long time—and one of the things I spent a long time testing was what it can have an effect on. I know we usually associate it with the natural world, but the fact is that magic doesn't only work with plants. It can work with almost anything—including human-made objects. Even computers."

Your grandma's words are beginning to come faster as she grows more excited, more urgent—but at the same time, you notice that she still isn't going into any specifics about how she knows all of this. What does she mean when she says that magic can "work with" computers? How has she tested any of this?

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