† 006.

[klutziness]

[rikku is lying in her bunk, the comm propped up on some scrap of metal beside her because she's too busy playing with her garment grid to hold it herself. she looks thoughtful, and gently runs the pads of her fingers over the spheres locked into the grid. the five of them, each a different color (lighter shades of red, blue, yellow, etc.), seem to glow with some sort of inner light. it's a very, very faint glow, but it's still there.]

How many of y'all have magic in your worlds? Like, not that hocus pocus "pick a card, let me saw you in half, i've got a dove up my butt" sort of magic. I'm pretty sure almost everywhere has that kind of magic. But I mean real, true magic.

[a beat]

Well I guess "real" is kinda relative, considering how many different kinds of magic there could be, but I think you get the gist. And if you've got magic--is it something everyone can do? Or do they need training or some kinda help to use it?

Comments

[jurisimpudent]

Then it's not "magic." It's still science.

[klutziness]

no
it's magic

[jurisimpudent]

No, it's not. It's science.

[klutziness]

~*~*~magic~*~*~

[jurisimpudent]

Science.

[klutziness]

did you not understand the asterisks and tildes and colored text
it was all for emphasis
because i'm right

[jurisimpudent]

Oh, yes. In some alternate universe where ignorance rules over reason, yes, you could not possibly be more correct.

[klutziness]

i don't know what part of "we know how magic works" you didn't get
it is fundamentally different from science
they are different things
we understand both of them for the most part
seriously bro