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You picture a beam of soft light falling down onto the plant's broad leaves, warming them and filling them with new color, new energy.

And when you open your eyes a few moments later, you can't help but gasp at just how perfectly the refreshed plant matches the image you had in your mind. The withered leaves are now a bright, vibrant green, and they even seem to have grown a little since you last looked. Even in spite of your experience with magic, you're a little surprised at just how easily that seemed to work.

And this isn't the first time you've thought the same thing lately. Ever since last week, you've noticed that magic seems to be coming more easily than usual. Normally you might have put it down to having better focus, or even just to luck—but you don't think that alone could explain it. After going through with your grandma's plan to find a new way of storing your magic, it doesn't seem like it can be a coincidence that this is happening. In fact, it looks as if the plan worked better than even your grandma might have been hoping for.

Of course, now that the developments are getting underway, it still remains to be seen if this plan will be enough to protect your magic on its own. If your grandma is right about your magic originating in the forest, then there's really no way for either of you to know what might happen if that origin point is disturbed. So far, though, everything you've seen looks very promising—and part of you wonders if you've only seen the beginning of what digital magic might be capable of.

At the same time, however, you can't forget the fact that even though your grandma's plan does seem to have worked, your grandma may have only agreed to go through with it based on what you told her about how much you had tried to keep your magic a secret. And although so far you haven't seen any evidence that anybody noticed what happened, you're still very aware of just how fearful your grandma was that somebody might. Now that the plan is done, all you can really do is wait and see what, if anything, might come of your decision to lie.

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