Calm and sweet? He must have her mistaken for someone else. She is seriously beginning to doubt she can do this, but she'll try. Better to take a chance and take this chance while she has it. Once-in-a-lifetime situations come, well, just the once.

She takes a deep breath before trying to focus not on the whole of the energies but on seeing them as separate pieces of a whole. Then she begins to talk to it, calm and quiet, like she would to coax a shy kitten out from under a table. Sure, hiding's an option, but wouldn't it rather come out and play?