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[aestivation]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Casimir Lyov
RECIPIENT: OTA
NOTES: n/a

[ without preamble, ]

When did you first come to know magic?

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[elegiaque]

( nevermind that, )

When did you get back?

[aestivation]

[ ok, nevermind that, ]

The ship was diverted.

[icasm]

As a child.

[aestivation]

How did it find you?

[kantikoy]

Mm, I was... fifteen.

[aestivation]

How long ago was this?

[voidtransport]

...birth?

[aestivation]

Ah — your mother, she was assisted?

[ didn't they have a healer who did that ]

[armd]

Still haven't.

[aestivation]

[ mildly puzzled: ]

Even here?

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[nonvenomous]

[aestivation]

[acreage]

When I got here.

[aestivation]

What do you make now of that distance?

[arkitect]

I cannot recall a time when I did not know it.

[aestivation]

Have you a long memory?

[indissection]

When my brother burned my fingers when we fought as children.

[aestivation]

[ with some sincere concern, ]

Were you badly hurt?

[notathreat]

That it was real, and not just something out of a comic book?

About a year ago.

[aestivation]

You must forgive me - a joke book?

[ weird ]

[lumelume]

Late childhood, though I don't recall the age!

Why do you ask?

[aestivation]

I have been curious. The past years have seen an open - ah - mingling is not the word I wish.

[molineux]

It was always mentioned in our ancient histories, but I never put much stock in it. Not until I read reports of dragons hatching once more and, [ she hesitates ] saw the giant corpse of a feared warrior reanimated to guard the queen regent.

[aestivation]

[ oh so normal stuff then ]

Your people hold dragons to be magical?

[exequy]

What are you doing back here?

[ —does not sound relieved that he is alive and probably—partially? at least?—well, even though Kostos is relieved. ]

[aestivation]

Kirkwall is not on fire.

[hornswoggle]

An interesting topic for a survey, all things considered. What do you intend to do with your collected answers?

[aestivation]

Do you have an idea?

[tender]

I must have been very small, but I don't remember my exact age. It's probably more true to say I always knew it, even if I didn't grasp what it exactly was until I was older.

[aestivation]

This is a notion - [ pleased! ] - That a mage is so before magic. This knowing, what shape did it hold?