"Good. Go ahead." It is a subtle thing to manage- one that comes with practice. But the skill is there, she can see. Different techniques than she herself had been taught but that came from being raised in a different circle. Perhaps there are some tricks he knew that might help her students as well.

Thinning the barrier as much as he had, as quickly? Has her smiling in genuine pleasure- in pride. A difficult task that he grasps the nuances of early. His teachers in his Circle would be proud.

"It is, to quote Roul, a bit of a bitch." But in time with repetition, feeling out his own magics for the barrier? He would get it. She's confident. "A way to make it easier at the start is to have a larger barrier around the flame."