There is something in there which clearly piques her interest, for her hands float up out of her lap to instead rest on the table and somehow that small realignment sheds what remained had remained of some latent uncertainty. It is like shifting from heels to the toe.
"Reduced how, would you say? Could you give me some example - 'There I might light a bonfire, and here I light candles.' It is strange to me, you see, how so many of us Rifters with some mage Talent, I suppose"—the 'T' is definitely capitalized—"seem to conduct themselves according to so many different series of rules.
"And it is not merely a question of learning the thing differently, as if we are speaking the same language but ordering the words in strange ways. Madame de Cedoux herself claims to have had little education in the subject when she was in her own world, yet was both able to learn here according to the rules of her own home and is unable to teach anyone the same. There are laws to how the world governs itself, Mr. Dickerson. Even the likes of what Corypheus does is bound by them. Yet here we are breaking them."
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Date: 2020-07-21 03:12 pm (UTC)"Reduced how, would you say? Could you give me some example - 'There I might light a bonfire, and here I light candles.' It is strange to me, you see, how so many of us Rifters with some mage Talent, I suppose"—the 'T' is definitely capitalized—"seem to conduct themselves according to so many different series of rules.
"And it is not merely a question of learning the thing differently, as if we are speaking the same language but ordering the words in strange ways. Madame de Cedoux herself claims to have had little education in the subject when she was in her own world, yet was both able to learn here according to the rules of her own home and is unable to teach anyone the same. There are laws to how the world governs itself, Mr. Dickerson. Even the likes of what Corypheus does is bound by them. Yet here we are breaking them."
So not intrigued by the offer of wine, then.