oia
For a moment you don’t notice, your attention thoroughly devoted to your note. Glancing up to see what it is he’s doing now, you notice that he’s staring straight at you. So, you do the only reasonable thing you can think of: you freeze. The longer you stay motionless the more a part of the environment you become, but the magic is slow moving. Still, many human-animals are quite stupid. It is entirely possible that if you stay still long enough that he’ll—
—Hello?
Assumption falsified.
“Greeting.” You call out. Not greetings, but greeting. It’s a habit you have, of merely saying what it is you are doing, or feeling (often as that might be). He has offered you a greeting and social norm indicates you ought to return it. Perhaps you should have added an upwards inflection at the end as he did, but it’s too late for that now.
Shrewdly perhaps, you let your eyes lower for a moment and quickly scratch out a few more notes. The more you witness the more evidence you have that this is indeed summoning magic, but it is entirely possible that thus far it’s all been compatible with some other magic. And, like Loren, you’re eager to find out.
—Hello?
Assumption falsified.
“Greeting.” You call out. Not greetings, but greeting. It’s a habit you have, of merely saying what it is you are doing, or feeling (often as that might be). He has offered you a greeting and social norm indicates you ought to return it. Perhaps you should have added an upwards inflection at the end as he did, but it’s too late for that now.
Shrewdly perhaps, you let your eyes lower for a moment and quickly scratch out a few more notes. The more you witness the more evidence you have that this is indeed summoning magic, but it is entirely possible that thus far it’s all been compatible with some other magic. And, like Loren, you’re eager to find out.
of course it's exhausting, having to reason all
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
