With a light note of surprise, Butchie retracted her ordinary devil-may-care expression and became very serious. Paxy was looking on with admiration. Because he was so close, he could sense the rather powerful perception emitted by Sister Butchie. The fluctuations in perception really were powerful—several times more powerful than that of the teachers in his school.
Sister Butchie was really a powerhouse among the powerful! He didn't know when he could ever get to where she was.
As Butchie's perception started to make contact with the fiery dragon card in her apparatus, she got a better sense of the card's mysteries.
