"I think I understand what you mean." Mairi flops beside her. "I don't know how other spellcasters perceive magic, but... when I use Detect Magic it's less to detect the presence of magic and more to find the presence of spells. Magic with intention. But at any given moment I can feel magic all around me, flowing like the river I was raised in all through the world, just waiting to be picked out and shaped."

Reaching up idly, she swirls her fingers in languid motion in the air, like someone might while reaching into the flow of a water current and feeling its motion.