Now that gets an even more confused look out of him.
"I think we maybe talking about slightly different things," he says. "Magic's plenty measurable and possible to replicate, back where I come from. I'm not much good at it myself, but there are scholars who devote their lives to its study and refinement. And to writing extremely dry treatises on the subject that get assigned as reading in schools."
How many nights had he spent trying to parse the dense academic language of The Benefits and Drawbacks of Runic Circle-Based Foci in the Context of Combustion Spells again? Too many to sit here and listen to someone try to claim magic is incompatible with the scientific process without at least some objection.
"Anyway, hopefully you're right about that - though I can't say I'd be too disappointed if I never had need to raise my bow again. And thanks, I appreciate that. I'm a pretty quick study at most subjects, but I think I may be a little out of my depth here."
Whole new world with new rules that run totally counter to his expectations in some places, and all. Without knowing where to start, it'd be difficult to learn much of anything.
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"I think we maybe talking about slightly different things," he says. "Magic's plenty measurable and possible to replicate, back where I come from. I'm not much good at it myself, but there are scholars who devote their lives to its study and refinement. And to writing extremely dry treatises on the subject that get assigned as reading in schools."
How many nights had he spent trying to parse the dense academic language of The Benefits and Drawbacks of Runic Circle-Based Foci in the Context of Combustion Spells again? Too many to sit here and listen to someone try to claim magic is incompatible with the scientific process without at least some objection.
"Anyway, hopefully you're right about that - though I can't say I'd be too disappointed if I never had need to raise my bow again. And thanks, I appreciate that. I'm a pretty quick study at most subjects, but I think I may be a little out of my depth here."
Whole new world with new rules that run totally counter to his expectations in some places, and all. Without knowing where to start, it'd be difficult to learn much of anything.