Yeah? What's Mars? [He says it with a kind of deadpan, but it could still be a joke because he's obviously picked up on the sarcasm and he can mostly take the meaning from context anyway. So what's lost, maybe, is the fact that he's honestly never heard of Mars in his life.
As far as magic tricks go, there's little enough Vrenille can do that qualifies as something to show off in a parlor (or the carriage of a train), but he can offer a small demonstration, and he'll do so to prove a point:
Lifting his right hand between them, his fingers play or weave, as though on an invisible loom, and from them there's a magenta sort of glow and a little flurry of translucent purple butterflies, about half a dozen of them. They flutter on the air in front of them and then, a little more than arm's length away, they fade and vanish just as suddenly as they come.
When Vrenille speaks again his voice is calm, and there's no teasing in it. Coming to terms with the idea of multiple worlds and multiple universes is difficult for everyone. He can be patient about that.]
I have met a few wizards 'n sorcerers from Earth--even from what I guess counts as "modern" Earth. Met a lotta people say the same as you 'bout science 'n magic too. There's no saying any of those guys're from the same Earth as you though. Seems Earth's a pretty popular homeland for folks dragged here by LIES, but it turns out to be lotsa different ones. And there's plenty of other folks here who aren't from Earth at all.
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As far as magic tricks go, there's little enough Vrenille can do that qualifies as something to show off in a parlor (or the carriage of a train), but he can offer a small demonstration, and he'll do so to prove a point:
Lifting his right hand between them, his fingers play or weave, as though on an invisible loom, and from them there's a magenta sort of glow and a little flurry of translucent purple butterflies, about half a dozen of them. They flutter on the air in front of them and then, a little more than arm's length away, they fade and vanish just as suddenly as they come.
When Vrenille speaks again his voice is calm, and there's no teasing in it. Coming to terms with the idea of multiple worlds and multiple universes is difficult for everyone. He can be patient about that.]
I have met a few wizards 'n sorcerers from Earth--even from what I guess counts as "modern" Earth. Met a lotta people say the same as you 'bout science 'n magic too. There's no saying any of those guys're from the same Earth as you though. Seems Earth's a pretty popular homeland for folks dragged here by LIES, but it turns out to be lotsa different ones. And there's plenty of other folks here who aren't from Earth at all.