"I promise I will try not to fall off a cliff. Again. If I can help it." He grins a little sheepishly then looks back down at his notebook. Five isn't the only one who feels awkward, Fox still feels like he's responsible for so much more than anyone ever really blamed him for.
He knows he's the one to blame for every dark turn Mingyu had taken in the years between.
Thankfully Five breaks the awkward silence with the best possible question he could ask.
"Oh! Um - yeah, sort of!" He holds the book so that five can see it, but - that doesn't help. Like all of his notes, Fox has written them in his own personal code - half mixing Korean and English and then inscribing it all in his own symbols to boot.
For someone who was very vocally supportive of teaching everyone magic, he was very careful about who or what could read his work.
"I've been trying to get Karsa to teach me how to thrall. As far as I can tell, I should be able to do it - it doesn't seem to be an inherent power thing - not like you and your sister. It is definitely teachable, she just - um - well she's touchy about it. I think she thinks I'm trying to undermine her work? Or something? So it's slow going. But she did show me--" He flips backward several dozen pages, then shows Five the contents. These runes look nothing like anything else in Fox's book - smudged by charcoal rather than ink. "I showed her the spell I was working on, and she sort of - fixed it. I mean, I was trying to cast on the thralled quartz's, yeah? And it always gets tricky layering one kind of magic over another, especially when the original enchantment was made in a way I haven't figured out yet. But I wanted to be able to piggy back it, so she edited my work with these."
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He knows he's the one to blame for every dark turn Mingyu had taken in the years between.
Thankfully Five breaks the awkward silence with the best possible question he could ask.
"Oh! Um - yeah, sort of!" He holds the book so that five can see it, but - that doesn't help. Like all of his notes, Fox has written them in his own personal code - half mixing Korean and English and then inscribing it all in his own symbols to boot.
For someone who was very vocally supportive of teaching everyone magic, he was very careful about who or what could read his work.
"I've been trying to get Karsa to teach me how to thrall. As far as I can tell, I should be able to do it - it doesn't seem to be an inherent power thing - not like you and your sister. It is definitely teachable, she just - um - well she's touchy about it. I think she thinks I'm trying to undermine her work? Or something? So it's slow going. But she did show me--" He flips backward several dozen pages, then shows Five the contents. These runes look nothing like anything else in Fox's book - smudged by charcoal rather than ink. "I showed her the spell I was working on, and she sort of - fixed it. I mean, I was trying to cast on the thralled quartz's, yeah? And it always gets tricky layering one kind of magic over another, especially when the original enchantment was made in a way I haven't figured out yet. But I wanted to be able to piggy back it, so she edited my work with these."