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"More or less, though it is a bit more complex than that," she agreed. "Secondly. Flows exist in a state of partial independence from the Weave, and from other flows from different sphere, but they actively merge with flows of the same sphere. Once they are drawn from a strand, you ca
"What would happen if you try? Wouldn't it kind of ruin his spell?"
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"Then why can't a Sorcerer do weaves on himself?" he pressed. "All he has to do is resist his own attempt to drain, or feed off of the power he's trying to push into himself."
"Ah, but in both instances, there is a catch," she told him. "If you try to feed off of the power you cha
"You-ohh," he said. "You cut off your own power, and then your spell fizzles."
"Precisely. No matter how you try to balance the feeding with the restraining, they will always cancel one another."
"What if you only try to feed off of a little of your energy?"
"What indeed? You should already know the answer, dear one."
He thought about it a long moment. "I guess you can't," he said. "If you try to feed off of only a portion of the energy, you're working harder to feed yourself a little bit of power that you get back. So you have to make it stronger, which makes you have to cut back on drawing power, but you can't do that, because if you do you lose that power to make weaves. You could never put enough power into it to make it work."
"A bit long winded, but essentially correct, Tarrin," she commended. "No matter how you try to balance it, you ca
Tarrin laughed. "I guess that make it a bit inefficient."
"The draining aspect is just a little bit more difficult to understand. When you try to drain from yourself, you are reversing the energy flow through the strand, but you are still expending that energy to enact the drain. Remember when you asked me about trying to overcharge a weave? Where does that energy go?"
"Well," he said, thinking about a moment. Then he thought about it some more. "Doesn't it dissipate back into the Weave?"
"Yes, that is what happens. You do not get that energy back. It disspates into the Weave. Think about it, dear one. You are expending energy to drain energy away from yourself. You lose that energy, and then must replace it with more energy, which is used to try to drain away that same energy. You are pushing and pulling on something at the same time, and when you do that, it does not move. The harder you push, the harder the counter will pull. And all the while, you are drawing more and more energy that is doing nothing but making you draw more energy. It is a feedback cycle that causes you to eventually let go of the Weave to avoid injuring yourself."
"Oh, I see," he said.
"That is not an absolute, Tarrin. There are certain instances when a Sorcerer can weave flows on himself, and that is when he is holding power from all seven Spheres. When he, in effect, becomes a strand rather than a flow. And that can only be done using Ritual Sorcery, because the sphere of Confluence, or green, will only draw out under extreme magical power. To even be able to touch Confluence takes considerable power."
"I take it you don't know why that works that way either?"
"Not yet," she smiled.
"I have a question."
"Go ahead, dear one."
"You said that flows can't affect each other. Well then, how do weaves with more than one flow produce an effect? I mean, they can't affect each other."
She laughed. "You are making me work, dear one," she chided, "but you ask very insightful questions. Each flow ca
"Yes," he said, studying it.
"That is a common effect. Separate flows that feed the same weave do that. Again, we do not know exactly why."