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[castcure]

[The feed opens on a close shot of Dakki, sitting on a couch and surrounded by colorful cushions. She's leaning in the slightest bit, hands primly in her lap. Propped nearby is a odd-looking staff.]

I've had luck asking general questions before, and this one's a bit more complicated than asking about fruits and vegetables. Hopefully someone has an answer? Aah...

[She trails off for an awkward moment, then clears her throat and tries again.]

I'm in need of a place to practice my thaumaturgy. Which is, in this case, er... throwing large amounts of fire and ice about. With the occasional... large explosion.

[There's another bit of awkward hesitation, this time as she presses her lips together in a thin line. Who in their right mind is going to suggest a place where she can go and cause explosions? But it is what she's looking to do... she has to be honest.]

I know there's a 'gym' set up for Moonblesssed, but that's more oriented towards physical combat, yes? Is there anywhere appropriate for practicing powerful magic?

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[unhappy]

"Thaumaturgy?"

[castcure]

Yes? It's a particular school of magic, where I'm from. It has its roots in magics used when preparing the dead for burial... and even further back, to the 'Black Magic' of old.

[unhappy]

Oh. Magic is a weird thing in my world, we don't have names like that for it.

[ She's not really in a position to go into it, so she leaves it vague like that. ]

[castcure]

No? That's interesting. It's quite well-studied in my world, to the point that there are many different traditions of practice, and names for them.

What is the magic like in your world, if it's alright to ask?

[unhappy]

We have individual beyond-human abilities and there's like.. crystals you can use to create elemental reactions, but it's not something people can do within themselves. But except for the crystals, you're pretty stuck with the one thing you do. Except for a few believers, most of the world's convinced actual general magic doesn't exist.

[ And like 6 people have actual magic where you can do whatever you want with no external materials, she guesses, but that's more need-to-know information. ]

[castcure]

[She takes in that answer with a curious 'hmm', expression alert. Crystals and elemental reactions?]

Working with crystals sounds like a familiar enough thing to me. The ones of my world are essentially condensed aether. Not unlike the demichroma that powers so much of this place. Are yours like that, or do they involve, um... different principles?

[unhappy]

We call ours dust. They're just different forms of energy, they grow naturally in the world and have to be mined, usually. They're really volatile raw, but they can process them into different forms. I don't know about aether or anything.

[ She doesn't really know what aether is... ]

[castcure]

The crystals from my world are generally mined, too. Though sometimes they'll condense in and around plants, if they're in an area with a lot of aetheric density.

How volatile is 'really volatile'? Do they dissipate? Explode?

[unhappy]

Explode, yeah. There are a lot of mine accidents because of it.

[ Emerald is glad she never ended up in a mine. Though really, Schnee Company would send faunus to go because they're racist pricks, so even when she was homeless it's not like it was a big risk. So Emerald isn't super passionate about this topic, at least. ]