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[onblackwings]

[ This lady's looking a little different, for anyone that's spoken with her before. Not any older, but there's a sort of crooked quality to her nose, like it'd been broken and healed some time ago. She's lounging in the Initiative apartments, looking like she's recently made friends with a superiority complex. ]

I want to speak to those of you who have seen a war before. Not the skirmishes that the Initiative sends us on here, but actual war.

And failing that, I'll take anyone that knows magic — and can teach it. That part is important. Don't waste my time if all you can do is cast it.

Comments

[whatsupcroc]

A certain kind of shapechanger, yes! What about you?

( Because it never hurts to ask, and adding numbers to the ranks of those who could be more than just themselves, physically speaking, is of personal interest and curiosity. )

[onblackwings]

[ there's a pause as she considers her answer. she'd love to brag about it, but in light of her conversation with the guy below... ]

That kind of spell is beyond my scope.

[ wow that's painful to have to say ]

[whatsupcroc]

( Pauses always mean something. But to care about what they mean, one must have a vested interest.

Her interest is not vested; it's haphazard and young, willful much like she is. )

You do magic!

[onblackwings]

Why else would I have been asking about magic if I wasn't already a mage?

[whatsupcroc]

Some people are insatiably curious about the things they don't have.

( Or they're also magic users pretending not to be. Eh! )

[onblackwings]

Pointless, unless you're planning on having it. [ and totally unrelated to that... ] How does your magic work?

[whatsupcroc]

It's not magic.

[onblackwings]

What is it?

[whatsupcroc]

Alien technology!

( She has an idea how singularly helpful that statement will be. (Not at all.) )

It's something developed by science, though how it works is so way beyond anything I understand, it basically feels like magic.

[onblackwings]

How do you use it?

[whatsupcroc]

Concentration, mostly.