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[dyingtohealyou]

Ahito

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[dyingtohealyou]

[...He honestly did not even think about other languages up until now.]

Only my country's. What languages are used for the books?

[impacter]

Mmm... there's a lot of them in Japanese. Quite a few in romantic languages, some in semetic... Sanskrit, Chinese, Russian... and those are just the ones I skimmed.

[dyingtohealyou]

...

[Uhhhh.]

...I've never heard of any of those languages.

[impacter]

Oh dear...

Maybe we'll have to come up with a translation spell sooner rather than later.

[dyingtohealyou]

Are they all from your world?

[impacter]

All the ones I listed are ones I'm familiar with from my world, yes. Some more than others.

[dyingtohealyou]

So it's not even guaranteed I'll be able to understand most of it.

[Cool. Love that.]

[impacter]

Not guaranteed, no. But persistence finds a way.

What's with the gloomy face? It's going to be just fine!

[dyingtohealyou]

I have a hard time accepting that if it turns out I can't understand any of our reference materials!

[impacter]

Easy, easy. You're worrying when we haven't even started to try!

If you don't believe you can do it, your magic isn't going to help. You need to commit to what you want.

[dyingtohealyou]

I don't even want to be here in the first place.

[Easy to mistake as mere complaining, but-

there's a bit of a raw edge in there, too.]

[impacter]

...

I don't think any of us do, Ahiro.

[It stays gentle. He can hear that tinge of something beyond teenage frustration.]

Are you concerned that studying magic will give you more reasons to be unimpressed with it?

[dyingtohealyou]

If I could, I'd have nothing to do with magic, period.

[Bluntly.]

[impacter]

Well, I assumed that much, or you wouldn't go and call it more trouble than it's worth.

Do you plan to not cooperate with the situation, then?

[dyingtohealyou]

I'll cooperate if it means getting back sooner, but it's hard to cooperate in the first place when our instructions are so vague.

[impacter]

It's really frustrating, sure. But I think you're heading in the right direction. See what we have to build a framework and then just expand from there, right?

[dyingtohealyou]

What framework? The sage himself doesn't even seem to know what we should be doing.

[impacter]

Does that matter?

Perhaps he's told us all he really knows at this point. It doesn't change our situation.

Magic is far safer and more stable if you know the history behind its usage. Even knowing the political climate and how it's changed can help us settle our feelings. A calm and confident wizard is what the spirits want, or so our little sparrow says.

[dyingtohealyou]

It matters if we want to achieve the overall goal.

I have confidence in my ability to learn and cast. It's the people who are supposed to be leading us who I've got no faith in.

[impacter]

Have you told them as much?

They don't seem to want us to flounder. But they won't know of your troubles if you don't talk about them.

[dyingtohealyou]

I doubt they're interested.

[The pipsqueak, he's sure isn't.]

[impacter]

Does it matter whether they're interested?

Their reaction to correct failures can say just as much as their first impressions. Show them your expectations, or you'll find that you'll always be disappointed no matter what they decide to do.

[dyingtohealyou]

No thanks. I'm not interested in dealing with them any more than necessary to begin with.

[impacter]

You're that certain that they'll lead us into failure when we've only been here a week?

[dyingtohealyou]

If they don't shape up, it's possible. Or, maybe someone else will convince them to actually do their jobs properly.

[Sure ain't gonna be him, though.]