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[balls_on_fire]

[seal, you are propped up on something just below eye-level to the sorcery genius sitting cross-legged on the cabin floor. sorcery genius has some yellowed, old parchment in one hand, the business end of a pencil in the other, gnawing on the eraser. she looks like a kid stuck on one of those crummy story problems in math

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[of_arabia]

[What is this flat chested child talking about...]

And what do you deem 'intelligent' input, precisely?

[balls_on_fire]

[DON'T YOU DARE VOCALIZE THAT DESCRIPTION UNLESS YOU PUT NO VALUE IN LIVING...]

Look, all I've gotten since I started asking around is a bunch of blank stares! As if nobody around here ever knew what the word magic meant. It's a suffocating atmosphere, you know? I need to be able to exchange a little know-how with some people with know-how. Different know-how, even, since I'd bet a whole lot that the properties of magic aren't exactly like those old goats back home are teaching it.

[of_arabia]

[He thinks he could take her. Although. That is... probably not actually true.]

I suppose that depends on what it is they've been teaching you.

[balls_on_fire]

[mmmhhh.] That depends, though...

[she wags the pencil at the seal a couple times.] Compare and contrast! That's what I want to do. I've been nosing around in these books for a few days now, but I'm not seeing anything referencing a demon god or power source that's viable around here. Most of these stories contradict each other, anyway. So I'm not going to have much of a jumping off point when it comes to magic here that way. It's easier to find out just how things work for other people who grew up with magic somehow.

[of_arabia]

I generally find it is a matter of personal alignment, though the inherent mechanics of different worlds seems to lend itself to certain rituals. My own base reality was much more flexible, however.

[balls_on_fire]

Flexible how?

[of_arabia]

Anything we choose to pledge ourselves to sufficiently may become a source of magic.

[balls_on_fire]

[squinting...

her mouth puckers in a scrutinizing way, leaning forward with her hands on the floor in front of her.]

So if you pledged to a rock...orrr...a piece of grass...

[of_arabia]

[He shrugs.]

If that is all the power you desire. Some choose to be... humble.

[There is thin smirk at his words. He clearly does not think much of such a choice.]

[balls_on_fire]

So - wait. That power doesn't just spring up just because you say this-or-that's your power source now, right? Where's the source?

[of_arabia]

Everywhere.

[He tilts his head slightly.]

You reshape existence with magic, why shouldn't all of existence power such an act?