[Lightning is TOO FAST TO SEE? I guess whatever the maximum draw distance upwards is, that's where it comes from. Who knows. It's cool, and he's watching intently-- both to the movement (steps, angle of the blade held, motion of it--) and the point of which that flash hits, a bolted strike that sears into his retinas and leaves a ghostly outline when he blinks, if only for a few seconds.]

So... I have to move it. [The-- mana, magic, fire, whatever. He's clearly working at understand it on his own terms. 'Manipulating mana', while absolutely accurate, physically means nothing to him. He doesn't know what mana feels like. But this is a good estimation, trying to process what Kratos is explaining.]

Wherever that feeling is, just move it out, and then let it go?

[He lifts the sword a little bit, clearly shifting his focus to it, brows creasing, and just trying to... figure out where that sensation comes from. His chest? Skin? The weird centering chi stuff Law talked about sometimes? His brows furrow, clearly just-- trying to think about this, but also not too hard because he would love to go a stretch of like two days without getting burns and blisters somewhere.

After a long moment of nothing happening he sighs, drops his arm with the blade, and brings up the other to scratch at his head.]

This is actually pretty hard. Trying to sort of... focus on it but not let it actually happen yet?