prismatica | Video: For once she isn't in a bad mood

I would ask you to once again indulge my curiosity. This world we are all in is vastly different from where I was calling home before I was drawn here. It is likely the same for the majority of you. My previous home was one I selected for the express purpose of distancing myself from the rapidly developing technology of the human world. The bright lights, the cities that never truly slept, they did not appeal to me in the slightest. The night was supposed to belong to me, after all, and humanity had long since encroached on my domain.

[Said entirely without arrogance in her voice, as if it was so common sense she need not even explain herself.]

Furthermore, there was little that science could do that sorcery could not simply do better. I suppose the appeal is that not everyone has the capability to be a great magic-user, but any simpleton can push a button. But I am going off track. The question I have to ask of you is actually quite simple. For those of you who came from a lower technology world, do you prefer the garish lights and sprawling cityscape you find yourself in now? I would hear your reasons for your response, if you would be so kind. As the one asking the question, I shall answer first. I much prefer my lakeside home to what this city has to offer. Peace barely exists here.

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[Please ignore the smoldering computer case in the back. Holy crap she's glad that was cheap.]

The aesthetic has its appeal, albeit in smaller doses than we are offered. I'm vaguely used to it, I guess. [Which you can thank her getting hit really hard by her moonblessing at times for!]

On a side note, I've been making some attempts to try to better integrate technology and magic.

Sakuya had something similar to tell me. But I think it will take a long time before I could feel at home in a place like this. I moved the mansion away from it on purpose, after all.

[She allows herself a little smile.]

I am hardly surprised to hear that you try to improve on it with sorcery, however. Obviously I was not referring to you when I said that magic was not for everyone. Is that twisted wreckage behind you the results of one of your experiments?

[Because no, she is not going to ignore that. Sorry!]

Um...

[Dang it, you just had to bring that up...]

...yes. I think I overloaded the processor a "little." It's a good thing I was fairly far away from the machine at the time.

I have no idea what a processor is, but if I had to make a guess I would say you overloaded it by more than merely a little. It is fortunate you were not injured, though I would surely have taken care of you if you were, poor though my nursing likely would have been.

You really have adapted to this world better than I. I still have occasional trouble managing this device we are speaking through, and you are detonating machinery just to see how it works. I may be falling behind on ambition.

[There is just a tiny hint of a teasing tone to her voice. A tiny, tiny bit.]

Basically, the processor is the most important part of the machine. If I hadn't blown up a bunch of other parts in it, it would be inoperable.

I feel it's best to make full use of all resources I have at hand. Back home, using computers wouldn't be very feasible anyway. I swear I'm not trying to just blow them up! [...probably. But also she now knows a lot of ways to make people's personal computers go up in flames.]

So what you are telling me is that you made its brain explode. I suppose that experiment could be considered a failure, but I have known you long enough to know you will not tolerate it any more than I would.

[She has apparently had her fill of teasing, not wanting to actually offend one of the few people she actually considers a real friend.]

The hardest part I have had to adapting here is the loss of the mansion. I can get used to the machinery and bright lights, but the loss of my lifestyle is intolerable. And gathering wealth here requires a much different skillset.

Basically, yes. It's going to take some time to get the results I want. [The explosion lit her room up in some interesting colors briefly, but it was useless as a computer without replacing basically everything. So...]

It's not easy and I don't have a lot of good advice. I was helped along because of the transformations making me more acclimated to it and deciding it wasn't so bad after the fact.

Transformations, hm? That sort of thing is nothing unusual to me. My form is a bit less restricted than most, after all. However, now you must indulge my curiosity. I have never actually seen you during the moon cycle, though I will confess I have come close to seeking you out multiple times. Sadly, being used to transformations or not, not even I am immune to the pull of those accursed moons, though thankfully it is only my mental state and not my physical that gets thrown into confusion.

What would you like me to tell you? My transformations have always been during the second moon of the cycle, the Cordis moon. My transformation underwent a drastic transformation a while ago, but the timing has remained the same.

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