( one. ) voice • scientia potestas est [ id: nightingale ]

[ettersberg]

[ thomas nightingale does, in fact, know how to use a smartphone. he's owned one for quite a while before the end of the world; google maps in particular has always struck him as rather useful. the knowledge of how to operate such a device comes in handy now as well, though he's not entirely sure yet why he's bothering.

(the answer is peter; peter would want to know and nightingale would hate not to have any answers at all by the time his apprentice wakes up. because peter will wake up, surely. eventually.)

so there is no fumbling, no pauses when the device clicks on except deliberate ones, and a smooth, very british and posh-sounding voice inquiring: ]

It seems magic is not out of the ordinary, here. Someone has already inquired about those who believe in or practice magic, but I'd be interested to hear how magic was regulated, if at all, in your worlds. That, and whether there were particular ill-effects to it.

[ here, there is one of the aforementioned deliberate pauses. ] I'd also appreciate hearing of your experiences with employment.

Thank you.

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voice; un: xXdogloverXx

[otiosity]

Oh you know, they simply tell us that we're the root of all that's evil in the world and lock us up in towers and hunt us down if we try to escape. As you might expect, it causes a bit of tension between mages and everyone else.

[said SO CASUALLY that it's clear to anyone that it's supposed to be a joke to undercut the bitterness.]

[ettersberg]

That sounds more like discrimination than regulation.

[ his tone is light, but ah. he imagines peter would have more to say on the matter, and peter would be right. ]

[otiosity]

Surprising how thin the line can be, hm? They aren't supposed to be captives in the circles. Just there to be trained so they don't turn into demons and go off eating people and leveling villages.

It's inconvenient how the world is complicated, isn't it?

[ettersberg]

At times.

[ inconvenient, yes. marvelous, too, if he's entirely honest. for too long, nightingale had been happy to let it all pass him by. he's trying, he's trying not to fall into that same trap again. not to let grief close in on him from all sides, separating him from that inconvenient and complicated and terrible and great world.

even if it's a different one from the one he knows. knew. ]

Is that a common occurrence, then? Turning into demons, eating people, the like?