[There's a long line that goes down the rest of the page, thick and heavy. A long pause stretches between the rest of his words.]
With magic? How do you know, Akito?
[Magic? Ridiculous. There were a lot of things that X could buy into with enough prodding. Ghosts. Spirits. Monsters. But magic? No, nonono, there had to be a logical explanation for that.
Maybe it was a technology that couldn't be explained yet, and this Akito person simply didn't know how to express it any other way. Humans did that for centuries -- and still do it, in some places.]
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[There's a long line that goes down the rest of the page, thick and heavy. A long pause stretches between the rest of his words.]
With magic? How do you know, Akito?
[Magic? Ridiculous. There were a lot of things that X could buy into with enough prodding. Ghosts. Spirits. Monsters. But magic? No, nonono, there had to be a logical explanation for that.
Maybe it was a technology that couldn't be explained yet, and this Akito person simply didn't know how to express it any other way. Humans did that for centuries -- and still do it, in some places.]