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[backscar]

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[backscar]

I imagine you would be rather surprised.

[wizardsplain]

Fine. Wow me. Grant me your most excellent rebuttal.

[backscar]

You're not insecure. Not when it comes to magic. Other things, well. We all have our failings. Perhaps you simply haven't been given the right kind of encouragement or praise.

[wizardsplain]

[ That's still kind of insulting, but— ]

Well. Most astute of you. Perhaps I underestimated your powers of observation.

[backscar]

It’s an acquired skill. It was necessary.

[wizardsplain]

[ Ah. That's... a bit sad. ]

Well, they aren't necessary here. I think you'll find I wear my heart on my sleeve, for good or ill.

[backscar]

You're more subtle than you think.

[wizardsplain]

Am I? All unintentional, I assure you. Subtlety is better left to the roguish types like yourself.

[backscar]

Perhaps we haven’t spent enough time together to know.

[wizardsplain]

You know, there is, in fact, a stunningly simple solution to that.

[backscar]

Oh, I’m well aware. I just hadn’t wanted to until now.

[wizardsplain]

I'm as of yet undecided if I should take offense from that remark.

[backscar]

Take your time. I’ll be waiting.

[wizardsplain]

All right, yes, I have decided to take offense. What, am I so utterly dull to you?

[backscar]

Did you think you weren’t? It was all ‘I need to eat your magical items’ and ‘your magic isn’t as real as mine because it’s not from a book’.

[wizardsplain]

Oh! Well, then, I duly apologize for trying to avoid detonating and killing everyone within the blast radius! How utterly banal of me.

[ No comment on the wizard supremacy. ]

[backscar]

Perhaps if you’d led with that it would’ve been less irritating.

[wizardsplain]

Perhaps. Perhaps not. You might have determined a veritable bomb in your camp was too great a liability, and then where would I be?

[backscar]

In the same position as the rest of us. We all seem to have a series of rather dangerous baggage to content with.

[wizardsplain]

Yes, I suppose I'm in good company in that regard.

I do apologize for omitting the truth behind my condition. Far be it from me to... irritate.

[backscar]

I suppose there is some level of hypocrisy in my criticism.

[wizardsplain]

Well, I wasn't going to bring it up, but since you mention it - yes, I do believe you could have been more forthcoming about your particular dietary restrictions.

[backscar]

And be welcomed with a stake to the heart?

[wizardsplain]

Less likely then than after you've tried to make a snack of the unconscious.

[backscar]

We all make mistakes when we’re hungry, I suppose.