the start of a quiet rebellion | Glowfic Constellation

powerispain

She grins. "So do you want to talk about magic and science, or anything but that on the grounds that this is the part where you're not immersed in the bowels of the library?"

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"I don't know, are there other good topics on offer?"

powerispain

"...Normally yes, trying to think of what doesn't involve enough local context to be an educational experience in itself..."

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"I do like educational experiences. Bring on the educational experiences."

powerispain

"Well, let's see...what was going on before you arrived...my botany teacher dislikes me arbitrarily, Illia had a break-up...you probably haven't read enough stuff to talk about books, what did you read in your literature classes?"

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"There was this book I really liked where somebody defied parental expectations and didn't become a mage."

powerispain

Snort. "That is slightly a genre."

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"Well, I like the genre."

powerispain

"It's a decent genre. As with all genres it has better and worse examples."

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"This was a good one."

powerispain

"What was the title?"

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"'All Birds and Beasts'."

powerispain

"Ooh, I've read that one, it is good!"

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He grins.

"So is there a reason for the botany teacher's arbitrary dislike, or...?"

powerispain

"Oh, he disapproves of Great Magery."

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"And why is that."

powerispain

"...Too easily abusable, which, I will admit I have nonzero sympathy for in light of the apparent conspiracy. But not that much."

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"I feel like arbitrarily disliking people who have the potential to become Great Mages is not a viable solution to that problem!"

powerispain

"I think it's less 'you could be a Great Mage, ergo you are inherently bad' and more 'you are planning to follow through on becoming a Great Mage and I have skewed ideas about how social incentives work' but I could be wrong."

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