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[takeyouapart]

Who else here comes from a world where people can use magic? Or - not just that, but people able to do things that most other people can't, things most people would think of as...supernatural.

[A pause.]

I suppose what I'm actually asking is, how do your worlds treat those kinds of people? Do they have to live in secret, or does everyone else know

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[damesuccubus]

Magic is common - demons, ghosts, relics that heal the sick and bless the meek - it's all real. People are gifted, of course, but if you show off too much the Church will burn you for it. My sister-in-law glows pinkish-orange and used to heal lepers and dying women in London, that is until the Church threatened her with the stake. Stupid she-ass, she still glows sometimes.

[takeyouapart]

...

[Well, he can at least sympathise with being threatened with burning at the stake.]

She, er, might not be able to stop it happening?

[damesuccubus]

She can control it, I've seen her do it. That little light of hers never shines around a member of the clergy. She thinks I don't see it, but I do.

[takeyouapart]

Maybe it's coincidence. Because, er, why would she glow at all if there was a risk of getting burnt at the stake?

[damesuccubus]

She only does it when she thinks no one is looking, but I'm not a fool. I can see what others cannot.

[takeyouapart]

[Long pause.]

Are you the only one who sees it at all?

[damesuccubus]

I think the old man, Sir Hubert, has seen my sister-in-law glow. I think she healed him. The old knight should have been long dead if it wasn't for Margaret.

We call magic miracles when we can see God in it, and everything else is Satan's work. So says the Church.