Ashling looked up at Seth for a minute. The brush hovered above her hand for a bit until she finally put it back in the bottle. "I walked here," she finally said. "There were problems with my flight, and I got a rental car comped. The car broke down, and I had to walk for a couple of hours," she said. "Which if you ask around, you're going to learn is an extremely common story." If she were the betting sort, she'd say it happened to him, too.
"I've watched people try, though," she went on, her voice going soft. "They can't. They pass out. The staff has to send special people to go and bring them back. If I go too near... I feel weak. I guess the majority of the staff can't go near it, either. So no. I haven't tried."