It is a strange thing - to not just be listened to, but to be studied. It makes her very conscious of the shape of what she is saying, the spaces between her points filled by both unsaid things and unaccomplished ones. Does it make a difference that she can see the little snake there with its beady little black eye and the faintly oil texture of the magic which hangs in the air about it staring at her as well?
She cannot say.
"Nothing so grand, Mr. Dickerson. I simply wish to learn how to adapt Thedosian magic and materials to create new tools for us to use, and to do so in a way that anyone here might replicate. It might help, I think, to see the places where all our various Talents overlap. As I said, magic in Thedas has rules. But if people like you and I and Madame de Cedoux are here appearing to bend them, then it is possible that some of them are more practice than fact. I would like to clarify the boundaries of the canvas, so to speak."
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Date: 2020-07-24 12:32 am (UTC)She cannot say.
"Nothing so grand, Mr. Dickerson. I simply wish to learn how to adapt Thedosian magic and materials to create new tools for us to use, and to do so in a way that anyone here might replicate. It might help, I think, to see the places where all our various Talents overlap. As I said, magic in Thedas has rules. But if people like you and I and Madame de Cedoux are here appearing to bend them, then it is possible that some of them are more practice than fact. I would like to clarify the boundaries of the canvas, so to speak."