"Cancel it out for now. Letting it remain is a few steps ahead." Layering it like an onion and working in tandem with the other mage as you would with your spirit, another valuable lesson but not one that needs teaching so soon. Walk before one can run, and crawl before one tries to walk. "I cannot remember what it was that compelled us to do so- perhaps someone had said three was as much as we could? It was some time ago."