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stressingwitchface

Fine.

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abrightboy

And I don’t agree to any of this… backfiring on your friends stuff. If he messes up, it should backfire on himself. If he needs incentive to learn control. And I don’t require yours to backfire at all. You know how to control it. If you choose to control it at harming someone, you understand the consequences.

Edited Date: 13 Jan 2024 12:26 (UTC)

From:

stressingwitchface

You refuse to give back my magic to me and then you refuse me the autonomy of my own choices?

I want this. I worked hard to make him and Persson agree to it.

From:

abrightboy

If he can have it without harming you, you don’t want that?

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stressingwitchface

He cannot have it without harming me. That is the nature of our deal with his warden.

It will teach him better control than if his magic backfired on himself: we can endure all kinds of pain ourselves, but the agony of harming a friend or ally will make us hesitate far more often.

Through this, he will graduate.

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abrightboy

Okay. I’ll call her. Anything else?

From:

stressingwitchface

No. Thank you.

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abrightboy

If I gave you illusion magic, what would you do with it?

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stressingwitchface

Practice defensive magic. Make a second me and see if I could control her to walk and speak. Perhaps imitate others.

From:

abrightboy

Imitate others to do what?

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stressingwitchface

Figure out how humans do what they do. Walk, talk, all of it.

Then when I am confident in my illusion abilities, walk among your kind in ports.

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abrightboy

...I didn't know that was something you wanted.

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stressingwitchface

I am not going to rely on someone else's magic to protect me in the human realm.

From:

abrightboy

So if that's what you want it for, you won't object to the restriction that you won't be able to imitate the form of anyone on the Barge.

From:

stressingwitchface

Not in the least.

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abrightboy

And I don’t want any misused magic to backfire on him. Like you said, you had more control than he does when you were a child. Abuse it and lose it, just like before.

[He considers her.]

Have you been using it at all since you got it back?

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stressingwitchface

No. Oracle magic is fairly pointless.

More like “abuse it, become head of your coven”.

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abrightboy

Is that not the kind of power you want anymore?

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stressingwitchface

I never wanted to have oracle powers in the first place. They’re only good for spying and only in a limited capacity.

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abrightboy

No, I mean being head of a coven.

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stressingwitchface

Oh.

Hardly. The coven system was a creation of Belos’. Flawed from the very start to divide magic and weaken us through infighting. Even as a new recruit I could see I wanted all my magic and in order to do that I needed to be part of his group.

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abrightboy

If you went home tomorrow and became the leader of your world, how would you run things?

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stressingwitchface

What?

I-I don't know. I haven't - I don't know, I think we're all going to kill each other anyway!

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abrightboy

You've never considered how things should be done so that doesn't happen?

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stressingwitchface

Belos ruled us for fifty years. Anyone opposing his rule was petrified - literally encased in stone and dead. Any indication of how things used to be was eliminated.

Most of the coven heads are going to try and kill each other to get to the top. I was trying to survive.