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Where I'm from, our powers tended to manifest themselves as magic-- in fact, the only powers one could have no matter the method was magic. Magic that made you stronger. Magic spells for healing injuries and some illnesses, and even creating those ailments in the first place. Magic solely for combat. Even magic that called for creatures to aid you. It's structured, tiered even, and the more you used what magic you had with you, the more spells you learned and the stronger you became. It comes from within you and in your hands it can have an elemental affinity, if you wanted.

And yet here... it's different. Here, it's not all magic. [Hope pauses to think of how he's going to properly describe what he knows of the powers here. To be honest, he doesn't even know how to do that, so he's just going to give up, since he'll just be asking people to describe their abilities anyway.] It's... well, words fail me, to be honest.

What are your abilities like? What can you do? What are your limitations? If you had them before you arrived here, how did you come by them, and are they any different here?

I hope you don't mind me asking. I'm honestly curious, really, because magic itself is rare and in my youth, the stuff of either legends or fairy tales to scare children into behaving. Here, I imagine, powers could be anything. [And there's a small note of wonder because yes, this is all new and weird, but exciting too.]

Good morning. My name is Hope Estheim-- or Alexander, if you prefer aliases.

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[the tiniest pause before] Not all powers are blessings, you know.

"Magic" is a terms that finds itself unusually broad. You know, funny little tidbits like "I've turned this prince into a frog, that's magic" to "ah, look at that natural occurrence, I'll look upon it fondly and call it magic." The magic of knowledge! The magic of a birthday party!

Perhaps it is one of those things that originated in legends and fairy tales.

[hm, curious.]

Hope, is it? An inspiring name.

[Hope's world sounds a lot like Ysvali's own so naturally she's drawn to respond.]

It is the same with my world, magic is the source of power. Even us spiritual beings rely on magic to sustain ourselves.

[A pause.] My name is Ysvali Zoaramstar. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

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Alexander, huh?

[It's not a lot of words, but she does sound amused about the choice.]

[It's a little protective, but she can't help but reply to this.]

He—[a pause]—we know that all too well.

I know. The magic I was told about when I was young were of the fairy tale kind. [And that's pretty telling in itself.]

Well. I. Don't have him anymore. [Hope stop stammering.] And he's still pretty important to me.

You can make all the comments and puns about my name, if you'd like. I've heard them all before.

[Just to. You know, get that out of the way.]

Perhaps the legends and fairy tales you know are pretty different. ... Then again, I suppose the "perhaps" really shouldn't be said.

You're... [No, stupid question. Of course these people would think to bring in non-humans as well.]

I'm not sure how our own "spiritual beings" sustain themselves exactly, but for us humans, magic is rare enough that we take notice if someone ever did manifest it.

I'm? [She doesn't realize that she outed her, again. She really needs to think over her words before she speaks.]

I see, magic isn't that rare back home. Not all humans can use it but there's enough around that can that it's not that big of a deal.

Sorry, I was about to ask something stupid, like confirmation that you're not human. I shouldn't be surprised that they take people from all walks of life.

Huh? Did I say I... I guess I did.

Yes, well, it seems they mostly take humans. [As far as she can tell.]

I suppose that's true, especially since they're humans too. But again, I shouldn't be surprised that there are others too.

Hmm, yes, I suppose so.

I am curious about these summons, are they demons?

What? ... No, they're not.

The legends say they're from a goddess. We call them Eidolons.

Huh. [She wonders if the humans of her world think of the spiritual beings they can summon to be from some god or goddess.]

Do they every try to kill the one that summoned them?

[A pause. Should he, or should he not? After some deliberation, he decides to tell the truth, but omit anything that would say that he has firsthand knowledge of this.]

No, not after the first time. Eidolons test someone with magic with a battle to the death. If the person wins, then the Eidolon can be summoned any time.

That's not too different. If a magi can best a demon it's summoned the demon helps. But they are only summoned once to form a pact that only lasts so long.

We didn't have anything quite like magic where I'm from. [Ellie's voice has a pretty strong British accent to it.] I didn't have any powers before this place. What I have now is...[she pauses for a second while she tries to think of a way to describe it.] hard to acclimate to. It's a sort of empathy, the ability to feel the emotions of other people.

Good. So you'll understand if some people are a little hesitant in answering his survey.

That makes two of us, [said with a little chuckle.]

I'm sorry. [And he does mean it. He cant imagine what it must be like, to feel the emotions of other people, especially when his own are problematic enough.]

Is there no way for you to control it?

Not for the ones in the legends I know, I'm pretty sure. As long as the person has their magic, I believe the Eidolon stays with them.

Hmmmm... I don't suppose the fairy tales and legends are true where you're from?

I wouldn't know much about magic.

[ Which is the truth; she's a street level vigilante, after all. ]

Alexander. Powerful name.

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