"Really?" Already, he's rewarded with some information he didn't know. "It's all rune-based? That's...not quite how it works for us."
He puts both hands in his lap and rubs the skull face on his ring thoughtfully. "I guess grabbing me by the wrist and waving my hand around would be a little cumbersome, hey?"
It's a pretty funny mental image as far as he's concerned, but he manages to bite back his instinctive giggle in favor of expounding on his own earlier premise. "Ours is based on Circles. Old, old rituals sort of...compacted down. The Morganian pentacle, or the Merlinian circle. That's why the rings."
He taps his again. "It's a tiny ritual circle, with all the domains of magic represented in it. Time, Matter, the Elements, Transformation, the Mind, and the Forbidden Domain." His finger goes around the band of the ring as if he's pointing out where the hands of a clock would go to indicate the time of day.
"Fair doesn't matter, though. Not right now. Surviving matters, and whether it'd even work or not."
He hesitates a moment and adds in a low voice, "It used to come off. The ring. It's not actually normal like it is now. But my master told me he'd break every bone in my hand if he ever caught me without it and I think I sort of freaked out and fused it onto the skin."
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He puts both hands in his lap and rubs the skull face on his ring thoughtfully. "I guess grabbing me by the wrist and waving my hand around would be a little cumbersome, hey?"
It's a pretty funny mental image as far as he's concerned, but he manages to bite back his instinctive giggle in favor of expounding on his own earlier premise. "Ours is based on Circles. Old, old rituals sort of...compacted down. The Morganian pentacle, or the Merlinian circle. That's why the rings."
He taps his again. "It's a tiny ritual circle, with all the domains of magic represented in it. Time, Matter, the Elements, Transformation, the Mind, and the Forbidden Domain." His finger goes around the band of the ring as if he's pointing out where the hands of a clock would go to indicate the time of day.
"Fair doesn't matter, though. Not right now. Surviving matters, and whether it'd even work or not."
He hesitates a moment and adds in a low voice, "It used to come off. The ring. It's not actually normal like it is now. But my master told me he'd break every bone in my hand if he ever caught me without it and I think I sort of freaked out and fused it onto the skin."