[Tony stops when Callaghan does, and looks over at him with a wry smile.]
No joke. You get used to weird magic bullshit pretty quickly. It's frustrating as hell because practically nobody who uses magic can tell you anything scientifically useful about how they do it, and proper analytical instruments? [He makes a scoffing noise. Mass spectrometers and NMR spectrometers and electron microscopes are not so much a thing in Keeliai.] But whatever they're doing clearly works, and all the magic systems follow their own rules. If they didn't call it magic, it'd just be a new weird branch of science, really. It's not that much more bizarre than quantum physics, [he points out with a grin.]
And don't worry, you're not dead. [Pause.] Unless you were dying when you got pulled here, in which case... Sorry about that.
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No joke. You get used to weird magic bullshit pretty quickly. It's frustrating as hell because practically nobody who uses magic can tell you anything scientifically useful about how they do it, and proper analytical instruments? [He makes a scoffing noise. Mass spectrometers and NMR spectrometers and electron microscopes are not so much a thing in Keeliai.] But whatever they're doing clearly works, and all the magic systems follow their own rules. If they didn't call it magic, it'd just be a new weird branch of science, really. It's not that much more bizarre than quantum physics, [he points out with a grin.]
And don't worry, you're not dead. [Pause.] Unless you were dying when you got pulled here, in which case... Sorry about that.