Thing is... [She frowns, continuing on in a tone that suggests she's trying to put her own thoughts together, puzzling out something she's not totally sure of yet and using Maddie as a sounding board. Wouldn't be the first time- between Jail's weird magitech engineering projects and Maddie's podcast explaining the finer points of magic to a wider audience, they've bounced first draft speeches and wacky prototype ideas off each other before, in the spare moments when they didn't have anything else that needed doing.]
You gotta wonder, where are they getting the themes from, in the first place? Nature, unshaped magic, it'd probably have stuff from the local environment, sure, but it wouldn't make a fucking... conceptual leap, like that, into stuff that's just associated with the place. Dunno how it works here, could just be chasing my brand new tail right now, but back home?
When magic gets thematic like that, it means it's reacting to a thinking mind.
So, question is: which mind? Is it us, just showing up here now? Maybe the androids, if they've been living here long enough, or someone who was around earlier? Or is there someone else out there, that we oughtta know about...
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You gotta wonder, where are they getting the themes from, in the first place? Nature, unshaped magic, it'd probably have stuff from the local environment, sure, but it wouldn't make a fucking... conceptual leap, like that, into stuff that's just associated with the place. Dunno how it works here, could just be chasing my brand new tail right now, but back home?
When magic gets thematic like that, it means it's reacting to a thinking mind.
So, question is: which mind? Is it us, just showing up here now? Maybe the androids, if they've been living here long enough, or someone who was around earlier? Or is there someone else out there, that we oughtta know about...