"Relatedly, there would be one other hopefully simpler issue." She glanced between the two. "As I've mentioned, I've been collecting these bits from what was around me as of late, such as sunlight... because I can sense no ley lines available here. Not the way I can back home. But pulling it from around me tends to do such things as form ice, since heat is... rather entangled, quite often.

"So... though I've been sticking to certain places on the roof of the main building," by which she meant the school? She'd certainly not been seen climbing much onto the castle, at any rate... "I don't suppose you would know of a... more likely place I could gather it from, once I've more to store it in? I don't wish to destroy the gardens... but if I pull too hard, I'm afraid I could freeze them solid, were I too close. Is there a spire out of the way enough from anything that might be harmed, that you could suggest? Somewhere where a radius of extraordinary and perhaps quite harsh winter, depending on how quickly and how much I gather at once, wouldn't cause harm?"