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[backscar]

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[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.

[wizardsplain]

I know what it's like to have something inside you that needs to be fed. I won't take umbrage at your mistakes, if you won't take it at mine.

[backscar]

Oh, I didn’t really care. You never got anything I was interested in, it’s just rather novel to poke you about it.

[ Deflecting from the kindness, at least a little. ]

[wizardsplain]

Well! All right then. Now that that matter's settled, I suppose it's only right to address your next complaint. I never meant to imply magic by one unstudied in the arcane arts was less real, only less... erudite.

[backscar]

You may not have meant it that way, darling, but that’s most certainly how it sounded.

[wizardsplain]

Well, you must admit that casual magic is hardly comparable to that of a true arcane scholar.

[backscar]

Why? Does it not take the same dedication and practice, just of a different kind?

[wizardsplain]

A different kind, surely. And, forgive my presumption, but I had always assumed your gifts the product of natural ability rather than discipline and dedication.

[backscar]

A mixture of both. Nothing comes easily, especially not for my kind.

[wizardsplain]

I can't say I'm not rather flabbergasted. You certainly do an excellent job of making everything appear as if it comes easily.

[backscar]

I can hardly let people think I’m trying, can I?

[wizardsplain]

I don't know. I think it rather humanizes you. Or, well - you understand my meaning, surely.