Weeks pass, and he doesn't catch a single card.
When cards become active, he goes looking. They just disappear before he gets there.
He's getting worried, and he's not sure he's satisfied with Kero's explanations.
He tries to focus on school.
Weeks pass, and he doesn't catch a single card.
When cards become active, he goes looking. They just disappear before he gets there.
He's getting worried, and he's not sure he's satisfied with Kero's explanations.
He tries to focus on school.
He sighs.
"Yeah. You guys can talk about magic, I'm going to meditate with my cards."
He distributes everyone's cards back to them, and finds a spot on the couch.
"Is it possible to give someone who isn't magical magic?" he asks Alistair.
Meditating continues to be boring but fairly trivial. He's soon under.
"Not that I know of, but anyone can use the cards. That's what makes them so dangerous- and impressive."
Yep, there's Maze. It's certainly the most... abstract of cards so far, without a proper avatar. It's just what it says on the tin: a maze. Except it's infinite and non-Euclidean and self-contained and weird.
"It seems like it runs in families, but I haven't looked into how. Are you going to science it?"
Way less than the Windy, also less than the Fly, yes. The Fly is just a very big bird. The Maze can barely be said to be sentient, let alone sapient.
"Of course I'm going to science it. Just not sure how to get a statistically significant number of people."
So the Maze has no preferences?
Does there seem to be a clear scale from most sapient to least?
...Does it match the shapes they take?
Not with words. What he's doing is communicating, though.
"I mean, if you say they will murder me if I try I will..." Pause. "Prioritize it differently."
"Most of them won't try to murder you, but I still think it's a bad idea."
"Well if I'm Clow Reed I guess I could just become the most powerful sorcerer ever and then run my experiments."