"You mean like this?" Elise asked, her voice filled with hope as she demonstrated two spinning magic circles.
I watched the runes complete a full rotation before shaking my head. "Not quite," I explained. "You've managed to cast both a light and healing spell, but there's no connection between them. Casting two spells at once isn't the same as an array. It's just two separate spells completed simultaneously."
She tilted her head, her brow furrowed in confusion. I took a breath and tried explaining it again. It wasn't the first time I'd shared this concept, but the idea of an array was foreign enough that even a prodigy like Elise struggled to grasp it.
