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grasshopper 29, voice

Hey, got a quick question for the magic people on the train who used books to learn! Any of you got any book titles you can share? Or know how a guy can learn to summon, get fiends or...uh, [ His voice grows quiet, but still audible. ] What should I call them?

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--Youma! [ ok he's back ] Anyone who knows how to summon youma! Or any magic that's uhh... useful, but not for a fight. Anything at all!

[ Yeah that's helpful, right. ]

My pal's here with me, Taiki-- he's summoned before, but he's looking to find new ways to do it--so anything you can tell us would be great! Thanks!

( ooc: taiki

longforgottenpromise may answer responses! )

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"Safely? How powerful is this guy?"

"Well...! He's rusty, but he's made contracts before with youma?" He's going to use that word like he knows how to use it. "He's not looking to summon anything big, but even just learning a new way of doing it would help."

A pause.

"But uh, he's looking to learn the basics too. Of magic!"

Optimism!

"Summoning is really my sister's gig. Luckily, she isn't here. And trust me I'm not being sarcastic with that. As for youma, the contract is important. What is his understanding of supernatural law?"

"Magic though, the basics are fairly simple, if he's already specialized in summoning he must know those though. Unless he is working in a Faustian method, in which case he's nuts."

"Faustian?" There's answers Taiki can give himself, but Tidus is curious what a 'Faustian method' is enough to pipe up.

"A Faustian pact is named after some lunatic wizard on my world who tried to forge a pact offering their soul as the bargaining chip. You get power, and the condition is that when you die the source gets your soul. However, most of them fail to realize that once the power wants your soul it is usually strong enough to kill you, and isn't going to give you enough power to stop it."

"Oh."

That actually... Apart from the last bit. Was very similar. Protection for power after you died. But not a soul and the power was his own when making a pact with a Youma.

"I don't really know the basics of anything... Um... Everything I do is sort of instinctual..." Sort of, except he doesn't have the instincts really. He mostly does things by accident.

"So I don't know supernatural law... or anything like that sorry..."

"No time like the present to learn!" Tidus pipes up. Opppptimisssmmm....!!! x2

"Erm, that is incredibly dangerous. Summoning isn't my strongest form of magic, but I understand enough of it to go over the basic things to do and not to do."

"As for supernatural law. It depends on the entity you are contracting. I don't really know much about youma and would need to research them before I can comment on that."

"It was different for Taiki where he's from," Tidus decides to chime in. Since the guy probably won't explain himself very well (not in his own defence). "He's a kirin, and kirin have youma to defend them since they can't fight. There was a lot of work to put in it! But 'cause youma are usually around," or so Tidus thinks, "it's not easy to do any of that here."

Well, that's one reason, right?

"But he's willing to learn anything and everything. And it doesn't have to be youma! Even something else. Some basic magic too. If he can form a bond with something in the first place, he has some kinda skill--right?"

Just- "We don't know where to look or to start."

He just nodded. She was right it was dangerous but Tidus was right too, it was something that was natural for Kirin to do.

"I don't know much about them either. They are creatures that live in the Yellow sea... Which isn't actually a sea with water sorry, but more a desert. They also appear in kingdoms that have lost their king, causing devastation on the people there. When we bind them we... bring them to the light, causing them to serve the gods."

He doubts there are youma, at least the youma he knows, anywhere else. But as Tidus said, any kind of summoning would be... something.

"Well, I can see if you have the potential for magic and teach the basics. But it would be the magic I know. Like I said, my sister was the summoner, not me. As for monster binding, I'd need to see it in action or read some books to say more about that."

He nodded, "Um... Okay. If you don't mind I mean... I don't want to be a bother."

He glanced at Tidus, he wants to learn but at the same time he doesn't want people to go out of their way to teach him, books might have been easier after all.

At that glance, Tidus nods at Taiki, but he speaks up to them both.

"That's a good idea. Sakura was a teacher where she's from, and you wanted to learn the basics anyway, right? This'll make it easier."

And he nods again. "You'll do your best, right Taiki? We'll start at the beginning for now. Work on summoning later."

"Honestly, back home, I took on teaching projects to deal with the tedium of things. I've been doing this for around 700 years, and lately, I've been spending most of my time watching sugar water evaporate."

She shakes her head, "I wouldn't worry about it."

"Ah apologies..." He had guessed she was older than she sounded but seven hundred is impressive, even if there are those on the train older.

"Um... sugar water?" A glance at Tidus. Does that make any sense to him?

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