entanglements

[marycatelli]

So the heroine is listening to a tale, and searching a garden. . . and the writer gives it an eyeball and concludes that no, she would not. She would listen intently and then search.

I can still have it do all sorts of magical things about the spells that are breaking, since she doesn't intend them, and can't control whether they distract her. But she would not try to do both at once because she thinks they are important.