She approached the bird bath and placed her hands on the rim. She took several deep breathes, trying to remember what it was like to go into that mode, like she almost had when Ruppy had drawn his sword on her. She'd been able to do it more consciously than she had when she first started using her power but it seemed a lot easier to do it when she didn't mean to.
Now that she was on the spot it was suddenly a lot harder.
For several increasingly awful moments, she breathed and took experimental pushes at the bird bath. Her power wasn't activating, not even giving her a 'feel' that it wanted to work. Without her power, even the now harder pushes she was applying weren't enough to even shake the bird bath. A nervous sweat broke out. Why wasn't it working!? Was this supposed to be some punishment for bragging about her power!?
She called to Ruppy, "Just give me a bit. Technical issues."