[ It was a rare thing to see a silent Fox. Usually his mouth could run on without him, chatter away as all his thoughts spilled into words before he could stop them. But right now he wasn't thinking in words. He was thinking in patterns, in shapes, in pure unbridled magic.
So it was a moment before he said: ]
Fucked up. Yeah, that's fucked up. You can't ignore something like that, it won't just go away. Doing that just handicapped you from figuring it the fuck out.
[ He paused, then looked up at her with a strange intensity, a tiny sizzle of green sparking in his eyes. ]
I could help you. Maybe. Obviously it's not my field, exactly, but what I am good at is directing magical energy. I think you're already doing it, a little. With your violin. Directing that energy into something more stable, yeah? I think I could help.
[ He leaned forward and drew a little crystal beside the figure he'd drawn of her.]
Back home, we sometimes use things called focuses. They're - hmm. In every spell, I need components to make it work, yeh? Can't make something out of nothing. A focus is basically, like, a component that you use to adjust the power of a spell. Usually they're used to help increase a spell's potency.
[ He drew a few arrows pointing in at the crystal. ]
It's sort of like physics, yeah? Like light. Light's just energy, in the end, after all. But you can use things to change the nature of that energy. Like how a crystal can bend or refract light. Turn white light to a rainbow, sort of thing. [ He drew another, thicker arrow leading out from the arrow on the opposite side. ]
It's like putting a dial on it. Like a magnifying glass can be used to focus sunlight into a beam to set things on fire. But it works the other way too, right? You can diffuse energy in the same way.
I could probably, um - I mean, it would take a lot of work, but I could probably build you something that you could use as a focus for your abilities. In the end, it's still energy, yeah? And you're learning to control them? I think I might be able to build you something like, ah, uhm, a breaker switch. A focus that if your abilities start using too much power or whatever, it will absorb a bunch of it rather than just exploding on you. Does that make sense?
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So it was a moment before he said: ]
Fucked up. Yeah, that's fucked up. You can't ignore something like that, it won't just go away. Doing that just handicapped you from figuring it the fuck out.
[ He paused, then looked up at her with a strange intensity, a tiny sizzle of green sparking in his eyes. ]
I could help you. Maybe. Obviously it's not my field, exactly, but what I am good at is directing magical energy. I think you're already doing it, a little. With your violin. Directing that energy into something more stable, yeah? I think I could help.
[ He leaned forward and drew a little crystal beside the figure he'd drawn of her.]
Back home, we sometimes use things called focuses. They're - hmm. In every spell, I need components to make it work, yeh? Can't make something out of nothing. A focus is basically, like, a component that you use to adjust the power of a spell. Usually they're used to help increase a spell's potency.
[ He drew a few arrows pointing in at the crystal. ]
It's sort of like physics, yeah? Like light. Light's just energy, in the end, after all. But you can use things to change the nature of that energy. Like how a crystal can bend or refract light. Turn white light to a rainbow, sort of thing. [ He drew another, thicker arrow leading out from the arrow on the opposite side. ]
It's like putting a dial on it. Like a magnifying glass can be used to focus sunlight into a beam to set things on fire. But it works the other way too, right? You can diffuse energy in the same way.
I could probably, um - I mean, it would take a lot of work, but I could probably build you something that you could use as a focus for your abilities. In the end, it's still energy, yeah? And you're learning to control them? I think I might be able to build you something like, ah, uhm, a breaker switch. A focus that if your abilities start using too much power or whatever, it will absorb a bunch of it rather than just exploding on you. Does that make sense?