[Week 19 | Day 2] (Accidental Video)
[Just a beat, just a moment to feel the magic curl back into his body as the space around him unfurls, flexes back to within its natural bounds once again as Fai slowly blinks open pale, ice-blue eyes to stare around in muted disbelief.
Standing there with his brown suit jacket hanging open, the matching vest neat and tidy, the blue bow-tie ( Read more... )
Clearly short-circuited magic, too, which Matt's never seen in action before.]
You tried to leave this world, didn't you?
[He knows it must have annoyed the guy, but he seems to take it in stride, and Matt's still half-smiling at how cool that looked. He represses the urge to quiz him about it, though. For now.]
Oh, right, I'm Matt. Hi.
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[Fai flashes an easy, friendly smile and lifts a hand in slight wave, indulgent almost as his mind raced. Three so far that have contacted him - and each with a different dilect, mannerisms in speech and cadence, tone and inflection...
Which meant, in all probability, all three of them were also travelers.
More and more interesting, really.
So here, have a sheepish laugh and a depreciative grin as he reaches up to rub at the side of his head a bit.]
And yeah, though seems that's not allowed here, hm? I guess this happens a lot in this Kannagara Country, huh?
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[He lights a cigarette. So many questions, where can he even start? He doesn't miss that the guy didn't offer his own name. That's OK. Matt understands that quite well.]
Did you have to study casting spells, or is it something you were born with?
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[Another bright smile and an easy laugh as Fai shrugs a bit, continues walking towards Hisato. Now...to think of something that would distract this child from his current line of questioning...
Ah, maybe...deflection back to him might work...]
Cigarettes, hm? Those things can kill you, yanno~
[The tone is light, cheerful - clear that he's teasing rather than lecturing, just to see how this kid will react.]
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[Just as lightly. That fact of his life in Kannagara doesn't cut as deeply as it once did. It's not like he had a real life to go back to, even if he'd lived after Kira.
Matt's seen enough people try to wriggle out of answering questions that he knows it when he hears it.]
I'm just curious. Guess you probably don't have stories about wizards and stuff in your world, but I did in mine. And systems of magic are cool.
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Because this boy - this child - dared to imply that he'd died once already.
That he'd been brought back to life.
Which was something that went against the fundamental laws of universal logic. There was no equal force that could equate bringing a soul back to life. To do so would create chaos in logic, unravel the boundaries between dimensions...
The universe itself did not allow it.
Not even for the gods he fought alongside and against.
So for this...this...kid to say something so flippantly...
Fai wanted to know how this came to pass - and more importantly, how he could do it.
Now.
Yet all he did was chuckle with a disbelieving amusement and he canted his head to the side, as if unsure.]
I'm sorry... but you made that sound like you're already dead.
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[He spins his cigarette around between his fingers, and he can't help but remember Ed's reaction to the news that death isn't exactly permanent here. Matt never had that instinctive, horrified disbelief. Probably easier to accept the impossible when you're benefiting from it, he figures.]
Supposedly the gods of this world brought us here. I don't believe that. But they can do things most people can't do.
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And, more importantly, how to repeat that truth.
Then again...maybe he's looking at this from the wrong angle. If something went wrong with the spell... if the reason he was the only one here...
Had he failed too? Had he died?
For now though he simply blinks and offers another smile - this one a little artfully unsure.]
Um...and you're sure this isn't some kind of afterlife dimension? Someplace for dead souls to wait or something?
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[Of course he did, while casting about for possible explanations, but that was one he was forced to reject as impossible--relatively speaking--pretty quickly.]
But a lot of the people here aren't dead. They were just, like, pulled out of the middle of their regular lives.
[If anyone here can be said to have a regular life, which Matt isn't so sure about.]
Guess it's only fair to warn you that dying here isn't permanent, usually, but it can still fuck you up.
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Something he's been searching for gods-forsaken centuries to circumvent - the Universal law of logic that states, irrefutably, that for every wish granted, there had to be an equal price to be paid by the one doing the wishing.
The wish to give back life after the death of a soul was too great a price to ask - not even exchanging one life for another was considered an equal trade, for no two souls were alike.
Not even the ones born to identical twins.
And he's seen firsthand that not even gods were exempt from this law.
So how?! How could this possibly be? The need for this one question to be answered burned through his heart, practically boiled down the poison of a conscience that had begun to take root within his being, leaving nothing but a renewed determination in its wake to finally realize his wish.
If that were even possible, here.]
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He even reaches up and scratches at his cheek a little bit as he ducks his head the tiniest bit. Completely and utterly harmless, that's him alright.]
I-I'm afraid this place sounds a bit overwhelming. Do you think there's someplace safe to meet so that I can learn a bit more from you? Oh! If you're willing of course.
I don't want to be an imposition...
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[Cute. Maybe consciously cute; Matt can't quite tell. He probably threw the guy for a loop, though, so he's not going to blame him for retreating into whatever mood helps him deal.]
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[Another shrug before he sets off once again, smiling deprecatingly back at Matt.]
There! So I guess I'll be seeing you in a half hour of so?
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[Matt doesn't think the guy is really overwhelmed by Kannagara any more than the sky here is green, but he does hope meeting in person might encourage him to be less cagey about the whole magic thing.]
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