She chuckled as well. "Mayhap, but likely not in the way I was intending." But still, she wouldn't chide the large one. It took all kinds, after all--wasn't that train of thought why Maebhrin had left Tuarhievel in the first place?

One of them, in any case.

"My thought was working to make sure my balance was impeccable--that this would not move unless I willed it. We did not have such things where I am from..." Oh, certainly, there were balls, but Braedonnal, her teacher, was far more likely to simply have her up twenty feet in a tree on the thinnest branches that would support her weight. Useful, but not present here, which made things difficult.