{SE} In remembrance

A panther in the night, a fire burning bright. Ray rubbed her temples lightly with her thumbs. "Six million, ten million people? Magic like affects without the use of magic? Your home world must be very crowded." Her voice had clear wonder and confusion in it. It was hard for the Torchline native to imagine such a world. It stretched the boundaries of her imagination itself. When Neos said he'd willingly left, Ray opened her mouth to ask why. But they had only recently met and that seemed like far too personal a question to ask a mere acquaintance. "So urban areas are the even more densely populated areas on your already heavily populated planet? Are rural the opposite then? Do they too have the magic without magic thing?" She asked instead. r a y The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. —Albert Camus