[There's a faint flicker of recognition at the word in Caleb's eyes. He's heard whisper of the practice, a new school of magic that wove its way through time and reality itself, one that the Dynasty had discovered and begun to perfect and one that was a mystery still to the Empire. None of that mattered to Caleb so much as the always present desire to learn more.
And magic that would let him manipulate time and space? That is exactly what he has been searching for, to try to undo some of the worst sins of his past. He tries not to look quite so eager as he feels.
He risks a moment of eye contact with the Shadowhand, wondering at the way meeting those eyes feels like it stills the breath held in his lungs so that he can neither inhale nor exhale for a moment before it all rushed from him, his voice breathless when he finally found it.]
I did, yes. I could see the fracturing web of possibility, could take some fragment of that with me when I put it away. It was incredible, like nothing I have seen before despite all my arcane study.
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Date: 2023-03-06 03:09 am (UTC)And magic that would let him manipulate time and space? That is exactly what he has been searching for, to try to undo some of the worst sins of his past. He tries not to look quite so eager as he feels.
He risks a moment of eye contact with the Shadowhand, wondering at the way meeting those eyes feels like it stills the breath held in his lungs so that he can neither inhale nor exhale for a moment before it all rushed from him, his voice breathless when he finally found it.]
I did, yes. I could see the fracturing web of possibility, could take some fragment of that with me when I put it away. It was incredible, like nothing I have seen before despite all my arcane study.