Try as he may to hide his confusion, it's pretty obvious that Hickey doesn't really get it. He gets that there's magic. He gets that whatever Quentin did it involved math and hand motions and doing math with his hand motions. But there's just something in the middle that he's not understanding.

And that's pissing him off more than he wants to admit.

"Tell me how a spell works," he says, still desperately wanting to at least do it right. "Let me try one."