[003] - Voice: Excuse Me.

[mysicksadlife]

[She's been putting this off. Actually, she's managed to put it off for a very long time now. But as slow as she may be, she knows when there's something she needs to say.]

Look, this probably isn't how you're supposed to do this sort of thing, but I'd rather get it out there up front and over with. I'm sorry for any... strange things I may have said or done while I wasn't quite feeling like myself.

That goes for Valentine's Day, and more recently. Though I have to admit recently wasn't that bad. In fact, if it was always like that here, I could probably get used to it. Eventually. Enough to hold my complaining down to a dull roar, anyway.

So I was wondering, too, about these filial spirits. If magic is really something here, it probably behooves me to try to see it at work. Anyone willing to volunteer to let me? I'm not saying I'm going to try it out myself, or anything like that. I just want to see it.

Comments

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[folklorist]

I'm absolutely positive! I've known and helped people contact the spirits for a year or two now. They're more...accepting and open than you'd think. All it takes is a bit of concentration and some patience and you should be able to contact them in no time at all.

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[mysicksadlife]

You make it sound like it's not that different from studying math or science or something. [Proper steps, proper formulae, proper procedures and voila! predictable results after all.]

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[folklorist]

It...really isn't actually. I-I mean all magic has a proper method and-and formula to make it work. It just, ah, varies from place to place is all.

[ He gives an encouraging smile. ] And of course the more powerful spells tend to be harder to cast and learn.

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[mysicksadlife]

It sounds more like you're just talking about chemistry or something now. I guess it makes sense, since alchemy led to chemistry.

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[folklorist]

Well apothecaries were the younger versions of pharmacies back in the day. But in someways occult beliefs led to some interesting ideas to be explored.

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[mysicksadlife]

Mostly for the sake of disproving them, and discovering what was really happening instead.

[Fairness compels her to add, belatedly:]

Not that science has always done very well with that, either. We've made a lot of mistakes along the way. But we're still trying. Even I have to say there's something to be said for that.