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If you want to get ahead in life, I recommend keeping a good one on your shoulders. The alternative is troublesome.

[Badum Tish.

That dryly delivered and awful joke was said by Vira-Lorr's head, which was resting on a metal plate in front of her. She was seated in her fortune teller's booth, relaxed back and reclined in her chair, wearing a particularly high necked Ao Dai that completely concealed the clean cut from sight. Trails of smoke extended from within the collar, floating upwards. Her head, meanwhile, was resting in the spot that the crystal ball usually would, looking about as acrid and "Over every last minute of this" as she possibly could. There was no way in which she was pleased by this.]

Ahem. It appears that some of the masks are a bit too effective at making us seem like monsters. This was an experience I was not planning to have again. But, rather than search high and low for blood in this situation? I will tolerate it as long as I must until it returns to normal. The discomfort is ... minimal. It's just very disorienting.

However, until this remedies itself, I will be sticking to the shop closely. I don't have a collar to keep from losing my head after all, you understand. And... [she switched which leg was crossed on top of each other and, in the process her leg accidentally bumped her head, causing it to topple over with a yelp of distress.]

This! This is exactly why I am not going out right now! Damnit! I'll have whoever's head for this!

[The answer came when a small litwick hopped up on top of the table and waved at the camera angle beatifically, touching a button and blessedly ending the feed.]

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I think a fishbowl might service better for what you're thinking. The only little trick is that I technically still need to breathe... Amazing to think of, isn't it?

Astounding given your head is no longer attached to your trachea.....or larynx for that matter, which makes it all odder you can still talk.

Getting technical and studying this carefully?

I believe that my head was technically not separated, not now and not before. I think there was a mystical link between the points, causing it to appear like they were not together, allowing me to drop it? But technically the blood flowed between as did the air.

...honestly, it'd be fascinating if it didn't give me a splitting headache. All wordplay intended.

Magic is an interesting subject of study. I've been meaning to spend more time at the Archives to see if they have any knowledge on the specific kind that stems from my clan and culture.

For no other reason than not to think of my circumstances, not to mention sating my curiosity what sort of magic are you speaking about?

The kind from my own world that Nightsisters are able to wield. Technically, Nightbrothers are not supposed to learn about it, but I think my mother would have taught me eventually had I stayed on Dathomir with her.

[Talzin had already broken a lot of traditions that were in place regarding how Nightbrothers were supposed to be treated when it came to her eldest son and she'd been well-aware he was Force-sensitive. Maul has every reason to believe she meant for him to be her heir in regards to her wisdom and knowledge.]

I have to assume it was somehow distinct from the Force, which you've spoken. What were they capable of doing in your world? Ours were very elemental in nature as a rule.

There is some overlap between the Force and magick, with the latter able to tap into the former, but the main difference is that the Force comes from the energy around a person while magick comes from the energy inside a person. That’s why one must be careful practicing magick, if you do too much, you’ll pay a high price. My mother lost her entire corporeal form for the better part of a year after doing too many high-cost spells.

Magick could accomplish many things the Force cannot. Creating a shield to keep attacks from reaching you, teleportation, healing a broken mind, and even using a placement doll to inflict pain upon another person.

To liken it to water... there is water in the air we breathe. There is water in the rivers that surround us and the plants that grow. There is water in your veins. One manipulates the water in the veins, but only that, and draws from it... taxing the person. The other manipulates all that is around, and though it is limitless, how much you can control or manipulate is a matter of the tools you use?

And neither plays by the exact same rules? So, these effects were possible that are different.

That is a very sound way of putting it. I am using that metaphor to explain the differences between the two practices to people from now on.

[This is why he likes having people around who understand him. He doesn't always put things the best way he can and it takes very unique individuals to interpret what he really means.]

Yes. While the Force can be quantified by certain ways of measuring it, magick doesn't really have that limitation. The only limits are how much of it is done to your own body.

Thank you. I think it works well for the Force, from what you've told me. It's very different from magic in our world, but we don't ever really have the power flowing through us.

I see. So, it would definitely be the more personally hazardous of the practices then wouldn't it?

In some ways, yes it is. I know the younger Nightsisters sometimes have an easier time of it than older ones, so there is something to be said for the vigor and energy of the young.

They have more life force, less expended. There would be a larger natural pool to draw from, which would make less risk for them. Although I suppose there would also be more to lose if they failed.

There are also certain spells one can only learn as they grow older and wiser. Things like resurrecting the dead to fight again. Though my mother did once mention to me there was a young prodigy to be found among the Nightsisters who could wield magick far beyond what a kit her age should have been able to.

[He assumes Merrin perished along with the rest of the Nightsisters during the massacre, not knowing she is still alive.]

Oh... that is a ... yes. Anything in the school of Necromancy would almost certainly be much higher level and therefore come with far greater risks involved. Prodigies aside, access to higher and more risky magic would also be a limiter.

I would be most interested to learn some of the magicks that defy some stated laws of reality such as teleportation.

[That one was one of the reasons Mother Talzin had survived for as long as she did.]

I suspect that many of the worlds have similar 'forbidden' arts which are at the edges of what is theoretically possible. Teleportation seems like that sort of thing, though....

Wasn't there once a fuzzy blue fellow who could do that?

If there was, I never met him.

[Maul is sure he would have remembered a fuzzy blue humanoid given how distinctive he sounds.]

Perhaps I'll find something in the Archives on how to do it.

I believe his ability was ... intrinsic for a lack of a better word. I want to say that the word 'mutant' was used, though I feel like that had a negative connotation. [She shook her head.] That may have been peculiar to his world though.

Distinct possibility. Worth a shot at the least.

If I do, I will let you know. You've always appreciated knowledge where it is found.

I will look forward to the report.

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