"Hmm--let's begin with the wall, and weave the fire elements in afterwards."

She turns her gaze to the paper. "I am trying to consider how many turnings we need to get to the point where it is tied off. I suppose the exact number of weavings would depend on the dimensions of the wall, but..."

She stares now through the paper, the black heat of her gaze threatening to set it on fire. "I'm thinking about it wrong. We have to think about unique steps repeated a designated number of times." She tries to run through the three-dimensional interactions in her mind, then frowns and begins to moving her fingers.