We went into the forest every day, and I practiced levitating trees, moving rocks, and bouncing Barrett up and down like a giant yo-yo. It was hard work. The heavier the object, the more energy I had to expend to move it. Still, they wanted me to do more than just knock things down and pick them up. They wanted me to learn to control an object’s movement down to the inch, and to be able to hold one thing in place while I moved another. As if this weren’t hard enough, I was also forced to practice moving things from side to side. In case there is any doubt, this is not easy. See, there’s a gravitational pull dragging things down into the earth’s core, and there’s also the pull of the moon, dragging things up into space. But there are other forces, too. Every object exerts its own pull on every other, and with a lot of work, I was able to use these forces to move things wherever I wanted them. But it all took more energy than I could have imagined. Things with Cam picked up where they had left off, but there was a new distance between us.
