"Shadows are friendly, they want to play with me." If she repeats it she'll internalize it.

Evangeline lowers her hand, and does her very best to move the threads in her mind. The good news is, she has a good amount of practice moving things with her mind! The bad news is, this amounts to her unconsciously attempting to use her summer telekinesis, which obviously doesn't work.

She realizes what she's doing when the light source itself twitches.

"Oh - that's not right. I need to do it differently than telekinesis."