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dr. stephen strange ([personal profile] rehandle) wrote in [personal profile] nonscriptum 2020-09-30 08:32 pm (UTC)

[ A slanting expression at Nate's chosen magician of the hour, but it slides otherwise off his back. Telling the tale isn't entirely the point. He needs the spotlight, but not for the full scope of his brief history of magic. ]

It's a story for another day. The point is, I trained in Kathmandu, we go by the Masters of the Mystic Arts, and as you can no doubt imagine from the name we have a lot of ancient and interesting magical tools and artefacts at our disposal. Such as

[ And herein lies the purpose of the detour, arrived at with a thundering swiftness that's far from his past wont but perhaps serves the same smokescreen purpose. He looks away from Nate and down to his own chest with the kind of lingering draw that might be expected of the showman he'll claim not to be - a chest that's now glowing. Not from power use or from the bond, there's no subtle touch waiting on delayed emotional transference. He's glowing because something's emerging.

From the center of his glowing chest, apparently unconcerned by flesh or clothes and easing its way out of the light itself, comes a small metal object. It's oddly shaped, the design a muddle of rigid geometry and looser weaved rope etched into the old metal. Two metal loops curl underneath, making space for two fingers. ]


... If you could.

[ Retrieve it, he means. He's not sure whether Nate's done much experimenting with the objects they store in their chests, so the prompt is a just in case.

If he does take it, the essence that accompanies it is perpetual forward momentum. Infinite potential and desire to learn. Condensed, he's an eager freefall into bottomless wonder, and all of that drive is imbued into the little object lit up by blue and suspended in nothing, waiting to be plucked. ]

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