[Noctis is quiet for a long moment, lips pursed. For all the thinking about this that he's been doing lately, he has yet to fully come up with a decent way of explaining himself or asking for what he's after. Should probably have written it down.]

Remember that thing we did the first time? Like some kind of trance... we were like that for most of the night, but it didn't feel like that long. It went pretty deep, and it was intense, but... it woke something up, didn't it? My magic felt different after.

[And it's true that he'd felt supercharged by it, and leaning on her power since then has helped him get much better at warping while holding on to another person, but it hadn't progressed any further than that. Like a champagne bottle that's been all shaken up, but with the cork stuck on the last inch; when she's powering him, he feels like he's about to burst, but the door's not yet open. It's the same door that's always been closed.]

I was wondering if we could do something like that, but... in a different direction, I guess?