[If Break possessed any innate magical powers in this place, they would probably be manifesting at present as crystals of ice stretching across the space between them -- the look he is suddenly casting at Ginko is downright frosty. The words the other man is saying are gentle, a pleasant and well-intentioned philosophy on the surface. But hearing them gives him the skin-crawling feeling of turning a light on, unsuspecting, to be met with a horde of vermin suddenly scattering.
This phrasing is just so specific.
He again makes no move to disguise his stare, nor the increasing discomfort behind it. The paranoia comes easily since he's been here. Break was never able to completely shake the notion, at home, that his landing in Rainsworth was so perfect that some unseen hand had to have been responsible. That feeling is virtually undeniable here, for how else could he have slid into some other Break's life? And having learned of the Juries, just what sorts of unseen hands are even out there, to find himself confronted so quickly with someone who will say things like that --]
...to call it "tampering with the fabric of reality"...that's a little extreme, isn't it? After all, if this particular "witchcraft" is possible for anyone to learn, it must in itself be a proper part of reality. Can something that is natural, even if it must be learned, be said to be tampering...?
[Kevin Regnard got away with what he got away with because he himself was a distortion in reality all along; Break knows this now. Precisely because of the danger of tampering, ordinary human beings simply could not Contract with Chains and survive. Surely if this world's witchcraft were similarly dangerous, there would be similar bounds upon -- ah, but Pandora found their way around the rules of Chains, and its agents created Contracts as they were able. What if this place has some Vessalius bullshit going on that Break is unknowingly participating in just by being here? What if, what if --]
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This phrasing is just so specific.
He again makes no move to disguise his stare, nor the increasing discomfort behind it. The paranoia comes easily since he's been here. Break was never able to completely shake the notion, at home, that his landing in Rainsworth was so perfect that some unseen hand had to have been responsible. That feeling is virtually undeniable here, for how else could he have slid into some other Break's life? And having learned of the Juries, just what sorts of unseen hands are even out there, to find himself confronted so quickly with someone who will say things like that --]
...to call it "tampering with the fabric of reality"...that's a little extreme, isn't it? After all, if this particular "witchcraft" is possible for anyone to learn, it must in itself be a proper part of reality. Can something that is natural, even if it must be learned, be said to be tampering...?
[Kevin Regnard got away with what he got away with because he himself was a distortion in reality all along; Break knows this now. Precisely because of the danger of tampering, ordinary human beings simply could not Contract with Chains and survive. Surely if this world's witchcraft were similarly dangerous, there would be similar bounds upon -- ah, but Pandora found their way around the rules of Chains, and its agents created Contracts as they were able. What if this place has some Vessalius bullshit going on that Break is unknowingly participating in just by being here? What if, what if --]