The conversations between the five of them kept going for a few hours. Walker began to look at the manas from their perspectives again. He saw how he had once looked at the elemental manas from their positions and realized that he had yet to change a few of the ways he thought.
When it came to the changes in forms of manas, he had forgotten how he had used more force than understanding to meld the manas to the forms he wished. At the beginning, that had been the flaw in his thinking. Nwo that he realized it, he had to go back and think of the basics.
The foundations of all learning were at some point carved in to the muscle memory of those that had trained them for many years or a higher amount of time. Walker has done so with himself to assure he could act at a moment's notice to defend the others in his family. That meant that he still had some lingering muscle memory of force over the flow.