Jowan (
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02 [accidental video]
[There's no warning what's going on before the video starts, just a flash of bright light and violent motion as the recording device shoots across the room and bounces off a wall, landing to give a tilted view of Jowan's room. It's not a particularly interesting room, nearly as stark and empty as they all start out when claimed, although it does now feature a small fire burning merrily in the corner. Not in a fireplace, which is probably why it's starting to spread quite alarmingly, but it definitely brightens the place up.
It's also probably the reason why Jowan is panicking just a little.] That wasn't supposed to happen!
[He stands at the edge of what the device is recording of the room and looks largely uncertain, glancing around the room for an idea of what to do before swallowing hard and taking a step forward, brow furrowing as he extends his hands and frost leaves his fingertips. The flames crackle loudly at the ice and Jowan closes his eyes, pushing more power into the spell until a sheet of ice surges forward suddenly, dousing the flames and leaving a good chunk of the room covered in ice. But at least there's no fire any more, right?]
I don't understand what went wrong! It shouldn't be this difficult. [He wanders over to nudge the ice with a toe and sigh heavily.] Why does this always end up happening to me?
It's also probably the reason why Jowan is panicking just a little.] That wasn't supposed to happen!
[He stands at the edge of what the device is recording of the room and looks largely uncertain, glancing around the room for an idea of what to do before swallowing hard and taking a step forward, brow furrowing as he extends his hands and frost leaves his fingertips. The flames crackle loudly at the ice and Jowan closes his eyes, pushing more power into the spell until a sheet of ice surges forward suddenly, dousing the flames and leaving a good chunk of the room covered in ice. But at least there's no fire any more, right?]
I don't understand what went wrong! It shouldn't be this difficult. [He wanders over to nudge the ice with a toe and sigh heavily.] Why does this always end up happening to me?
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But I wasn't trying to pull a rabbit out of anything. [He says at last.] Why would I even be trying to do that?
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So, you're going to think this is ridiculous, but, in my world, magic isn't...magic. It's just a clever slight of hand, usually. Or distracting someone away from what you're doing long enough to make them think you did something impossible.
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Why would they claim to be magic? That's just going to get them locked up, isn't it? Although... if you don't have magic in your world then that wouldn't happen I suppose. But that also means everyone would know that they're lying, wouldn't they?
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[She goes to the closet and gets what she needs before coming back.] Now, I'm going to make this coin go right through my hand. On the count of three.
[She counts down and voila, the coin is on the table.]
It's super popular with nine year olds.
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Is that really a trick? You made it go right through your hand, and you're not even bleeding or anything! You really don't have magic?
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[And she does, to show that it's all just a slight of hand.]
People can do things like this so well that they've been able to master the illusion of sawing a woman in half, right before your eyes, and then put her back together again, completely fine.
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We're a simple folk.
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[She has a feeling their lives are completely and totally different, so who even knows if this will work.]
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Lighting fires to cook food or heat water? Healing injuries?
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[Well, RIP.]
Fire and cooking and heating things have all been taken care of by science. which, back hundreds of years ago, probably seemed like magic when it was all first invented. You'll get that here, though. When you shower or bathe, the water is instantly hot if you turn the tap to one side? Not magic.
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[Because he's pretty sure she's wrong about that one...]
It's water out of the walls, and you don't need to heat it at all! How could it be anything but magic?
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There are metal tubes in the walls, um, pipes, that the water travels through. And there's water being held in tanks, so when you want hot water, there's a tank full of hot water, and you turn the knob, and that opens a valve - boom, you have instant water.
[Look, she's not a plumber, that's about as good an explanation as he's gonna get. But she thinks it's not half bad.]
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But what happens if a wall is damaged? Does all the water leak out? What if it all runs out, how does it get more?
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[She'd love to be able to show him but she'd end up flooding something.]
If you have any other questions about how things work without magic, I'm happy to try and explain them.