She smiles at him before frowning. "I have tried to feed the extra shadows into mine, but it doesn't work. It makes me incredibly ill when I do it sometimes and other times the shadows float away." She pops open the vial and begins manipulating a small piece of shadow between her fingers. "How I made the ring is I intertwined a small piece of my shadow, i.e. the gemstone piece, with a bit of shadow from the vial. When you press the gemstone, it's like tugging on my shadow." She manipulates the small piece of shadow to copy what her hand does, like a real shadow would. She sighs and stares at the shadow longingly.