If he used his hands, the result was obvious. He also didn't exactly have tongs on him.
'Maybe that's what they were thinking when they gave me this mission?'
A thought popped up in Sylas' head and he reached out with his telekinesis.
That was when something unexpected happened, something even Bloom had likely not thought of either.
Sylas's method of applying his telekinesis was incredibly unique, he just didn't know it.
Rather than controlling a part of an item, he enveloped the entire thing with his Will. It gave him the greatest amount of control.
In the past, he had tried to envision a hand wrapping around a weapon, but it lacked stability so he had abandoned this path. This was also part of the reason he found weapons balanced for flight so much easier to control, because he wasn't fighting against their natural instinct.
