Assuming possession of one of the chairs comes easily enough, and by the time he brings the lamp to bear all lingering and notable traces of her second thoughts have evaporated. She assumes. In any case, she is not picking at her own fingertips while her hands are her lap which is fine enough. Nevermind the appearance of her hands (for what good are beautifully manicured hands when you're sporting a complexion so soured by jungle sun), but raw cuticles are damnably difficult to keep safe from all magnitude of stinging things in the workshop--
Wysteria forces herself to stop gazing curiously about the room.
"That's right. It was immediately obvious to me that I'm unable to reach into the Fade the same way mages here do, so my studies have primarily been focused on enchanting and the theoretical study of warding and so on. In Kalvad, magic is ordered much more thoroughly than it is here and those two things fall closest in line with the diagramming methods I'm most familiar with."
Nevermind that she has at this point been studying Thedas' magic craft for far longer than she was ever a magician's apprentice. That is unimportant.
"But reading things in books and observing the thing in practice - and I do mean practice, not in the field as we're all running pell mell from demons and Venatori and so on - has been something of a challenge. We no longer have anyone in the Gallows who is capable of working enchantments, and back before Misters Stark and Fitz and I became engaged in our current subject of study it was rather more difficult to convince any mage in the Gallows that an interest in magic didn't secretly come out of the intention of throwing them into the most convenient dungeon."
(It definitely has nothing to do with her personality. That would be ridiculous.)
"Have you experienced anything differently? From your description of the planes, the practice here and in your home seem rather more closely aligned."
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Date: 2020-07-20 05:58 pm (UTC)Wysteria forces herself to stop gazing curiously about the room.
"That's right. It was immediately obvious to me that I'm unable to reach into the Fade the same way mages here do, so my studies have primarily been focused on enchanting and the theoretical study of warding and so on. In Kalvad, magic is ordered much more thoroughly than it is here and those two things fall closest in line with the diagramming methods I'm most familiar with."
Nevermind that she has at this point been studying Thedas' magic craft for far longer than she was ever a magician's apprentice. That is unimportant.
"But reading things in books and observing the thing in practice - and I do mean practice, not in the field as we're all running pell mell from demons and Venatori and so on - has been something of a challenge. We no longer have anyone in the Gallows who is capable of working enchantments, and back before Misters Stark and Fitz and I became engaged in our current subject of study it was rather more difficult to convince any mage in the Gallows that an interest in magic didn't secretly come out of the intention of throwing them into the most convenient dungeon."
(It definitely has nothing to do with her personality. That would be ridiculous.)
"Have you experienced anything differently? From your description of the planes, the practice here and in your home seem rather more closely aligned."