Can't be a wizard without a hat

[les_magique]

[Video]

I have taken the time to figure out the use of this communication device for two reasons. The first is to show off my hat.

[She has a hat on. It's a wide brimmed pointy hat that looks exactly like the kind of hat a wizard would wear. She looks quite pleased to have it.]

I suppose a hat isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, but I like this hat, and having ANYTHING from home is something of a luxury, given our current situation.

Anyways the other thing I wanted to talk about isn't quite so trivial. I'm curious about magic.

I have spent the last few years devoted to unlocking magic's mysteries, you see, and I THOUGHT I was making good headway. But now that I'm here, I'm realizing that this is a MUCH more complicated subject than I thought it was. Magic works entirely differently depending on what world you come from. Some worlds don't even HAVE magic in the first place!

So if you know anything about how magic works in your world, I would be interested in comparing notes.

[And then, a minute later.]

Oh right also. Gladio, if you wanted to try teleportation, now seems like as good a time as any.

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[Nita nodded, sitting up and turning her book around so Samata could see; the lines on the page were actually composed of words in the Speech - describing dimension, intent; numbers and words, though the chord was largely numbers at the moment.]

It's as natural as light where I'm from, too.

[If, depending on how you look at it, a little younger.]

And there's two ways to go about a spell; when you're young, you have a lot more power just in general, so you don't have to focus as much on detail. But when you get older, you have to emphasize specifics more, and strategy. So if you're altering the water currents in a given area, like this spell's for, you have to be more careful not to waste power, or you could render a whole part of the ocean unlivable.