[Look, he's... okay, he's judging a little bit. But he doesn't know anything about magic beyond what he's heard secondhand. "Psychic powers" just sounds like some fancy term for some spell or style of magic. Oh well.]

[If it works, it works! Good enough for him!]

All right then. [Keep going girl, you got this. He'll step back, and hunker down to peer a little into the hole caused by the spine.]

[Momo calls out about resistance, at almost the same time Davrin spies it. He was really hoping it wasn't going to be like this but -] Yeah, it's barbed. We're going to have to go the quill route.

[He stands back up, looking over to her.] Can you cut the top off of this thing? Magically?