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[Tellphone Network]

Hello my lovelies! I can hear again, in case those who learned of my last issues were curious. What a horrible thing not to have when it happens so suddenly. So scary.

But there is a thing to be said of course. I had plenty of time to read while I was isolated, and I have become resolved. I shall be acquiring a lovely sweet fluffy rabbit for myself. Perhaps a second one later too. One of those with fur suited to thread, but it's not about that.

I've been looking at so many books to research what I need, but I realize there are not a lot of places in town where they have the things I would need. I know I need to commission the work for a hutch, but where in the world am I to find suitable toys for the thingS? I hear they like tunnels to snuggle in too, and I don't know how I'd achieve that.

Oh dear, I at least understood dogs, I was ready for one of those in theory. But this is so much to learn!

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So you can only wield or manipulate specific elements you were born with access to…? I suppose I can see why you hadn’t heard of a familiar, then.

[ Another different system of magic. He’d come across a few since arriving here, and it was interesting to think about. It meant there was so much more to learn about the subject… Yes; he was a nerd. ]

Everyone is tested for an element they have an affinity for in my own world along with a few other things, but we can work with other elements in spells. Just not as well as we would with the one or two we have a connection to.

Yes. Magic is inborne. Someone cannot perform wind magic if they are not born with that ability. One must be born to any skill they have. And from there they must train in proper use.

So you've a lot more multi-talented people.

I see, different and yet similar in some ways.

[ If one thing held true, all magic needed to be learned and trained to use properly. ]

To be able to use magecraft of any kind, mages are born with magic circuits in my world… It’s a system tied to the nerves. [ But the point stands, Rhy would be correct. ] Each mage has their strengths, elements and kinds of magic that are easier to work with, and that which was handed down to them through their family, but can use the others to a lesser extent when called for.

Many of my students are quite talented in their pursuits, both in their family’s craft and utilizing what they’ve learned outside that.

That is quite lucky for them to have then. Near every person is born with magic in my world.

[He's actually starting to get almost okay with it being 'near every person' at this point.]

[ Waver suppresses a gloomy ‘Yes, they’re very lucky,’ because they were in some ways. Being born into powerful families, with impressive circuits and magic crests compared to his third-rate mediocrity. But he’s made peace with it. Mostly. He’s proud of his students, even if he does still get jealous sometimes. ]

Perhaps, compared to those born with less potential… but they’ve also worked very hard over the years.

[ Near every… Sounded like magic was an even bigger part of Rhy’s world. ]

So magic is a more common occurrence in people in your world, but not everyone. I suppose that means there’s less need for secrecy, though I imagine that’s not easy for those without it.

There is no secrecy with magic. That would be silly.

With magic that common in everyone there, that would make sense. [ In this world as well, it seemed rather pointless to hide magic in general, even if you might not share the specifics of what you could do for other reason. ] In my own world, though, the concealment of magic is the law. There are entire departments of the mage association concerning it.

Concealment of magic being the law? That is a horrid thing to consider. Though I suppose maybe you are in a world where magic is dying away.

I don’t know that I would use the term dying, exactly… [ But it would be a lie to say magic during the age of gods hadn’t been easier or more potent. ] I would say it’s more diminished compared to ages gone by. Sure, some magics have been lost, but it can’t be said to be dying as new magics are developed or the lost one rediscovered and introduced to the modern age.

But if magic is less common, if it is not shared by most everyone, it's fading, isn't it?

Compared to where you're from, I’m sure that’s a reasonable way to look at it. And it’s been made clear since I arrived that a lot of worlds have very different systems than that of my own.

But just because something is changed, or less than it once was, doesn’t mean that it’s disappearing entirely. That’s not to say it wont one day, especially if the modern world makes advancements that endanger the preservation of the mysteries of magic. [ He shrugs lightly. Things aren’t so simple. It might stay as it is, or it might drop off and actually move towards an end, like Rhy suggested. ] A long time ago, mages heavily relied on the gods for power. That age ended when mages of the past decided that they didn’t want to rely on them anymore. Instead, magecraft now relies heavily on preserving the mysteries of it. The more unknown something remains, the more potent it is. So mages focus on their own family’s magecraft, and improving their Crest over generations in the hopes that one day someone in their family will reach the root of magic.

So things change, and we develop and create new forms of magecraft in the world, or recover those lost from past ages. The department I run at the school I work at is dedicated to modern mage craft theories.

That all sounds... strange to my ears. I cannot imagine how rarity of magic could make it stronger, save for the inherent fact that Antari are more powerful and they are rare. But one does not lead to the other.

And I have as hard a time imagining a world where almost everyone has access to magic and that secrecy of some sort is unnecessary, though I accept that it must be so. [ He offers one of his lighter expressions at that, almost a smile. ] If there’s anything that’s interesting about being swept up into this place, it’s hearing about other kinds of magic in other worlds.

[ ‘Cause he’s a nerd. And on that note, he raises a brow. ]

I suppose Antari are something specific to your world as well?

Very specific, yes. They can do magics others can't, and blood magic. They can walk between worlds as well, crossing the walls that were put up when the doors between realms were shut.

I see… So their skills are more rounded than those who can only use one element… Traversing worlds is quite a talent; I take it that with the doors being shut between realms that it makes an Antari quite important. [ And, well… Rhy had to know this was coming. ] Are you of the sort skilled with an element or…?

They are, and there are less than a handful left.

[Rhy winces at the question, because of course he did. Dammit.]

I... had the misfortune of being born in a manner which left me a disappointment in the eyes of many.

[ Well, shit. Waver cursed himself internally as he realized that he may have pursued a line of questions that were better left untraveled. And it’s something he can understand quite well himself, given his lacking circuits and the unimpressive Velvet family crest. He knows what people are like when you’re seen as beneath them for lacking what everyone else around you has. ]

Ah… So you were one of the few you mentioned. I can understand how frustrating that can be if you’re surrounded by people with greater abilities than yourself. I apologize for touching on a subject that isn’t pleasant.

Indeed I was. I was fortunate, though, that my parents did not hold this against me. My brother, meanwhile, was Antari.

That is fortunate. [ He’s known older mage families that disowned children when they disappointed them for similar reasons. ] Your brother is? That must have been complicated growing up.

[ Maybe that was why his parents weren’t holding it against him. If they had a child that was that powerful to focus on? At least… That was how it could be with the more traditional mage families in his world. ]

Yes, but he was wonderful to me.

[Rhy chuckles and shakes his head.]

I owe him my life. Many times over.

So you’re close despite your differences, then. [ Absently, he does find himself wondering more about the man’s background at the next comment. It calls to mind how he’d carried himself during the whole loss of hearing ordeal… ] I suppose siblings do tend to watch out for one another, even the ones that don’t always see eye to eye.

[ Even he and Reines, despite not being related… Well, he worried about her more than he liked to admit and he was pretty sure it was a mutual in her… odd way. ]

I love Kell with all I have. I hope he feels the same.

[Though he knows Kell had been certain for so long that Rhy hadn't loved him or cared.]

Ah… It can be a bit hard to get that point across sometimes, I think. [ He admitted awkwardly. Actually talking about emotions was a bit hit and miss for him in general… And it was worse for his foster sister, really. ] But if he’s been there for you when you were in trouble, I’m sure he knows on some level?

Perhaps he did. And yes, I think he knows.

[Of course they share pain so...]

Then I suppose your hopes have an answer. [ He commented with a tilt of his head. ] Family can be… complicated. Everyone has their own ways of expressing things, I think. I still don’t know how to get something through my foster sister’s head half the time, not without her finding a reason to tease first.

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