She had been afraid to believe or to hope. She has seen so much that was called "magic" since she had been reborn in Horos, so much still since she'd been reborn again in Kenos. And coming as she did from a world without it, despite most people's assumptions of a world that included jinba... It leaves her at such a disadvantage. She has no eye or brain for what magic is capable or not, what she should assume is possible with it or isn't...]
I saw mine... beyond- The last day I remember... but beyond what my own eyes saw, not just things stolen from my mind...
[She'd been sure that's what it had to be, at first. What else could it be, surely it would just be a trick made with memories stolen from her head... But it hadn't been that. It had showed her other things, too, things she had no idea of knowing. What her brother had been doing and where he was. The stablemaster. Every single orphan in the village. She didn't know what they'd been doing, but the bead had known... Did that mean it was real? That she was actually seeing her world like a crow from the sky, spying from a world so far away?]
You... You know magic, don't you?
[He'd used it, in that fight in the alleys of Venera. He'd been one place and then another. He'd whispered words that made things happen. So he must know better than her...]
Could it be real...?
[Could it be proof that their worlds existed still, somewhere far beyond where they had ended up? She's so desperate to know that she barely even notices the plants springing up around them, her remaining eye glued to the priest's face.]
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She had been afraid to believe or to hope. She has seen so much that was called "magic" since she had been reborn in Horos, so much still since she'd been reborn again in Kenos. And coming as she did from a world without it, despite most people's assumptions of a world that included jinba... It leaves her at such a disadvantage. She has no eye or brain for what magic is capable or not, what she should assume is possible with it or isn't...]
I saw mine... beyond- The last day I remember... but beyond what my own eyes saw, not just things stolen from my mind...
[She'd been sure that's what it had to be, at first. What else could it be, surely it would just be a trick made with memories stolen from her head... But it hadn't been that. It had showed her other things, too, things she had no idea of knowing. What her brother had been doing and where he was. The stablemaster. Every single orphan in the village. She didn't know what they'd been doing, but the bead had known... Did that mean it was real? That she was actually seeing her world like a crow from the sky, spying from a world so far away?]
You... You know magic, don't you?
[He'd used it, in that fight in the alleys of Venera. He'd been one place and then another. He'd whispered words that made things happen. So he must know better than her...]
Could it be real...?
[Could it be proof that their worlds existed still, somewhere far beyond where they had ended up? She's so desperate to know that she barely even notices the plants springing up around them, her remaining eye glued to the priest's face.]