"Let's work separately to start with, then get back together and discuss what we found," you say.
"Okay, sure," Manish says.
"Nah," Darcy says. She scoots her chair nearer to Manish. "Manish and I will team up."
You shrug. As long as you get an uninterrupted chance to work, you're fine.
You prepare to dive into theory.
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Practitioners have ways to focus their searches so that you don't reach into other universes at random. Similar objects resonate across the barrier, and the more common they are in the universes, the better your chance of finding them and bringing them across. Rocks are easy. Creatures are harder. Intelligent creatures are the hardest, and specific people are all but impossible.
Good thing you're focusing on summoning water. And, sure, there's a pattern to condense water out of the air without having to summon anything, but this will be water from another dimension.
You get a piece of paper so you can outline approaches to the problem. You have so many leads to chase. Summoning involves finding an object in another dimension and pulling it into ours. How do you define what you want to pull across? How do you locate it once you've defined it? Then how do you open a portal from one dimension to another?
Could you start with a cross-dimensional location pattern? But without having any information about the other dimension, how would you know if it was correct? Perhaps identification patterns would work better. You could test them on objects around you.
Your paper fills with possibilities, each mapped out in circles linked to other circles. You feel your way through the tangle of possibilities.
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