Is it possible for Jeff to get any more excited? Anders is about to learn that the answer is a resounding YES.
Because.
Because...
The Fade. It sounds a whole lot like the Gift-- or, like, what his grandparents' generation called it: the Aether. That plane of reality overlaid on the material world like tracing paper, built on magic and possibility and abstraction. Where it-- where Ziggy came from.
Are they from the same world, in different times? Or are their respective magics pulled from the same source?
"Fuck..." he whispers, awestruck, as he watches Anders play with lightning itself. "That sounds... really familiar."
A beat. Okay. Time to swallow back the reverence and hit Anders with puppylike excitement again. "Dude! Can you teach me how to do that? My shit's mostly, like--" He wiggles his fingers at his head. "Mental, illusions or whatever. I mean, I can start fires, but that's kids stuff, you know?"
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Because.
Because...
The Fade. It sounds a whole lot like the Gift-- or, like, what his grandparents' generation called it: the Aether. That plane of reality overlaid on the material world like tracing paper, built on magic and possibility and abstraction. Where it-- where Ziggy came from.
Are they from the same world, in different times? Or are their respective magics pulled from the same source?
"Fuck..." he whispers, awestruck, as he watches Anders play with lightning itself. "That sounds... really familiar."
A beat. Okay. Time to swallow back the reverence and hit Anders with puppylike excitement again. "Dude! Can you teach me how to do that? My shit's mostly, like--" He wiggles his fingers at his head. "Mental, illusions or whatever. I mean, I can start fires, but that's kids stuff, you know?"