It took like a year for me to learn how to explain it, because it's something I feel more than understand, if that makes sense.

[ Jesper took a while to be able to put into exact words how he searches for objects or what they feel like. It's all very mental over physical in the end, and he knows it's the same for the other Grisha. When the squallers reach for weather, when the healers modify the body, all of them are doing it through instinct. They may have all been trained better than him, but it comes from the same source. ]

It's the same thing, just requires more energy.

[ He puts the crystal away and then reaches instead for the mound it had been in. It cracks and while he could do probably more than that, he pulls a decent-sized rock toward him, spinning it the same way as the crystal. He steps over to it and slides his fingers along the outside, changing the exterior of it as he goes, modifying the rock so it appears more smooth and oval than before. ]

I couldn't do any of this in the start. I could barely make a stone into a necklace for my friend Wanda, that was the first thing I ever really did.

[ She wears it sometimes, knowing what it means to him. ]