Voice; UN: WrightLawyer4U

[objectionattorney]

A bit of a vague question, I know. But out of curiosity, how advanced was the technology from your homeworlds? Is it close to how things are here on El Nysa? Or was it something closer to Thessa Station?

How difficult was it for you all to adjust to your lifestyles here because of it?

[Just a casual question. There's no ulterior motive or purpose to this what-so-ever.]

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[objectionattorney]

See, you say vague things like that and how could I not ask what it is you do for a living?

[ettersberg]

I've been a police officer for the last few decades. Well, and a wizard all my life.

[objectionattorney]

A... Wizard huh?

[You know, you'd think he'd be more surprised by this information. Perhaps he's finally developing immunity to all of the insanity that's been plaguing his life.]

I guess that sort of thing was fairly common in the world you're from?

[Similar to here in El Nyssa. Or how spirit mediums are a thing in his world.]

[ettersberg]

Not particularly.

[ it had been more common, once, but for the last 60+ years, nightingale has been the last wizard. he's not going to mention that. ]

[objectionattorney]

Oh.... Huh.

[Well then, that makes things interesting.]

Then, not going to lie, I'm surprised at how forthcoming you are in mentioning it. Although the police officer bit makes more sense to your natural curiosity. So you just, no magic? Like you can shoot fireballs from your hands and make things disappear and all that?

[But at the moment it's his own genuine curiosity that's getting the better of him.]

[ettersberg]

There is no reason to keep it quiet here. [ and yet, there are things hardly anyone here knows about him that he has no clear reason for keeping quiet —but those are private matters. ]

Yes on the fireballs, although they do not come from my hands.

[objectionattorney]

I suppose you're right about that. I mean, magic is really common here. But I won't lie that I'm still, after all my years here, trying to adjust to the concept. We had some strange things happen in my world sometimes, but as far as I knew, magic was just a parlor trick.

... Where do the fireballs come from?

[Should he ask? Is it inappropriate to ask?]

[ettersberg]

Frankly? I've no clue.

[ you're talking to a man who was considered the strongest wizard in all of europe at one point, but all his aptitude at magic does not mean he knows anything about the how and why of it. ]

[objectionattorney]

So do they just, well, appear? Like, in mid air?

[Finding out about real live magic was a genuinely interesting topic to him.]

[ettersberg]

In essence? Yes.

[objectionattorney]

Huh.

That is interesting.

So, if it wasn't a common thing in your world is it strange to now be in a world where it is?

[ettersberg]

It is. Or it was; I do believe I've grown somewhat accustomed to it.

[objectionattorney]

Well I suppose that's good.

At least means you're doing better than I am with accepting all this.

[He's been living here for a year and a half now and he still doesn't know how to process half the things he sees!]

[ettersberg]

Perhaps it is because my normal has always been different from that of most.

[objectionattorney]

Truthfully I wonder if anyone who ended up here really lived just a normal serene life before this all happened.

[But then again, the ordeals he encountered seem all fairly mundane in comparison to the storm's arrival.]

[ettersberg]

Perhaps no life appears ordinary to the person living it. Or all lives do.

[objectionattorney]

What was that saying? That everyone is ordinary in their uniqueness or something like that?

Ah, right. I believe the phrase was 'You're Unique, just like everybody else.'

[Now that was a phrase that brought him back to his shitty early 2000's millennial childhood.

Damn you Happy Bunny.]

[ettersberg]

I suppose that captures the idea of it, yes.

[objectionattorney]

... I wonder how long until I will finally get used to the idea of wizards and magic being real. I was only exposed to a small amount of the supernatural in my own world, although with what I have seen I am sure there were more depths to it. But even after being here for two years it's still hard to convince myself that I'm not just experiencing some sort of fever dream.

[ettersberg]

In my experience, some people struggle with it more than others.

[ he thinks of peter, who accepted it nearly immediately, and he thinks of seawoll, who after years still refuses to use "the m word". ]

[objectionattorney]

Ahahah, yeeaahh I definitely can understand that.

[He says, thinking of both Maya and Miles respectively.]

I was never exposed to magic outright, but I'm well aware of more, well, spiritualistic situations is I guess the best way to put it?

I knew a medium once. And her stuff was surprisingly legitimate. Everything kind of devolved from there. Although fireballs is still a new one for me.

Did you go to a wizard school?

[ettersberg]

I did.

[ he can only hope that phoenix has not read the harry potter series. ]

[objectionattorney]

[So sorry Nightingale. His daughter is an aspiring magician. He has many questions about real life wizards and whether or not the stereotypes are true.]

So wizarding school is a real thing. And there were like, other wizard children trained alongside you?

[ettersberg]

Yes, on both accounts.

[ he doesn't mind answering, even if the memory is bittersweet at best, tinged with loss. ]

[objectionattorney]

Dang... My daughter would have died of joy knowing that there's a legitimate word out there somewhere where wizarding schools are a thing.

But then again I have a feeling she would have reacted like that the moment she discovered magic was real.

How does a person become a wizard? Is it a genetic thing, like you're born into it, or is it a learned trait?