Six solid minutes. Not even a flicker of her ability rippling the calm and simple...real touch. She was doing better.

It was time to change it up a bit.

Going for a walk around Atlantis might be the best way to ensure the most natural distractions, but if the gene therapy had taught him anything, it was little steps were needed.

"Let's try again, this time..." he held out The Once and Future King. "With a distraction. Read to me aloud while keeping hold of your ability." he said. She knew the book already so it wasn't an entirely solid distraction, but...little steps.