Adrien meditated for a long time to reach the right state of mind to try channeling the Water element, then Val instructed him on the spell-casting motions that would best suit his task; and yet, on that day, Adrien didn't manage to summon even a single drop. He'd been trying to take his failure in stride, but he could not deny that his disappointment had been weighing on his head, so he had been discussing the matter over dinner to unload.

"I mean, I think -- now I think I get the theory", Adrien sighed, spinning his piece of bread in the fondue pot, "but -- but how do I make that work for myself? I tried, you saw that, but I didn't get the sense that I was being any more -- uh, water-like than normal".