"I don't know if I'd call it a miracle!" Isabel laughed. Just a little bit of home-style magick, really. If he hadn't failed in his attempt, she wasn't sure she'd have been able to work on it. "But you are right, I've been working on my studies as diligently as I could."

Which wasn't to say she didn't play hooky from time to time. All work and no play made Homer something something, after all.

"Maybe you could try doing it in stages? Like put the stars on first, and then change color? Doing it all at once might have been too intense. I don't know for sure, but it's worked for me so far," she said.