[ Matt nods. He doesn't want to hide his capabilities--or at least, he doesn't want to be alone with them--but he's not sure who he can trust, and less sure who would understand. Like he said, though, if anyone deserves the full truth, it's Howl.
So he takes a sip from his glass, slow and contemplative, and says: ]
I started doing magic when I was 15. I think I've mentioned that before? It all started pretty gradual, guided meditations and visualizing protective barriers of light, and somewhere along the way, I realized I could actually cast spells. So I started doing that basically every spare second I had, and ...
I never read a description that sounded exactly right for this thing, though I guess you could say it's like shared telepathy. I call it opening a channel. What I think it is--what it feels like--is that it lifts the barriers between bodies. So you still feel exactly like yourself, but you feel like someone else too. In an embodied sense, one that carries memories or fantasies or things that relate to what your body's been through ... what it knows.
That's why I tried it on you. [ Matt glances to Howl's face now, cautiously. ] I thought maybe if you felt exactly like someone who wasn't being affected by the Innocence, it'd help shake you out.
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So he takes a sip from his glass, slow and contemplative, and says: ]
I started doing magic when I was 15. I think I've mentioned that before? It all started pretty gradual, guided meditations and visualizing protective barriers of light, and somewhere along the way, I realized I could actually cast spells. So I started doing that basically every spare second I had, and ...
I never read a description that sounded exactly right for this thing, though I guess you could say it's like shared telepathy. I call it opening a channel. What I think it is--what it feels like--is that it lifts the barriers between bodies. So you still feel exactly like yourself, but you feel like someone else too. In an embodied sense, one that carries memories or fantasies or things that relate to what your body's been through ... what it knows.
That's why I tried it on you. [ Matt glances to Howl's face now, cautiously. ] I thought maybe if you felt exactly like someone who wasn't being affected by the Innocence, it'd help shake you out.