"Impressive! Wish I had that kind of talent." It wasn't exactly a lie. Kieron had to read the same damn book ten times to figure out how to do the basic stuff, and that was after the few times he'd read it thinking it was just a fiction book taking itself too seriously. Why couldn't he have had the easy road out, too?

He chuckled a little and shook his head, mostly at himself. "Yeah, that kind of puts my little trick to shame," he said with a shrug, reaching to fiddle with a dead twig that had probably fallen from a nearby tree.