Bristlebane grinned, somehow that little chimera puppy just made his whole day that much better. That and knowing they would get their stuff back, some of that stuff was really important to him. Now he could concentrate at the troublesome task at hand, working with his magic. During his run he had practiced only making the conduits for his magic and not actually using it. He could finally make the conduit almost effortlessly, now to test his hopefully somewhat improved skills. To his surprise he found that he replicated his earlier attempt at making a pebble sized ball of energy without very much trouble at all. Of course doing the same thing over and over again didn't really matter, doing it better did. Instead of attempting to use more magic instead he made multiple pebbles of deep purple shaped energy and "poured" them into the same space. To his delight they melded together perfectly- and then after letting it go they immediately split apart. Bristlebane experimented with this trying to figure out a way to make them stay together. Of course he could've just made a bigger sphere but at this point it was a matter of whether he could combine them or not, rather then could he get the end result.