Truthfully, it did and it didn't. There were still a fair amount of questions on Jamie's end, like why Dwarves couldn't touch the Fade and how something like that could be channeled in the first place, but the most of the rest of it was very close to what he's been told before. While what was said did help, it was a situation rather akin to the scientific explanations he would get from the Doctor - or from Zoe. Half the time those tended to go right over his head. Most of the time it was easier to simply sound like he knew what he was talking about here, and just accept that something worked even if he couldn't quite grasp the principle behind it.
However, there was one thing that 'Detlef' did mention that was new - and in this case, something that didn't wind up completely confusing him. And so rather than pretend as though he understood everything, he turned his palm upwards, glancing down at the mark there while he chewed on his lower lip in thought. It wasn't too long before he lifted his head again, brow still knit together ever so faintly.
"We'd not known what this mark did until we were sent to go face demons at the rift, but then we figured out if we worked together we could use it to close the rift once we'd gotten rid of the demons. That sounds a lot like what happens when mages first realize they're mages to me. So that'd be the same sort of thing, aye?"
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Truthfully, it did and it didn't. There were still a fair amount of questions on Jamie's end, like why Dwarves couldn't touch the Fade and how something like that could be channeled in the first place, but the most of the rest of it was very close to what he's been told before. While what was said did help, it was a situation rather akin to the scientific explanations he would get from the Doctor - or from Zoe. Half the time those tended to go right over his head. Most of the time it was easier to simply sound like he knew what he was talking about here, and just accept that something worked even if he couldn't quite grasp the principle behind it.
However, there was one thing that 'Detlef' did mention that was new - and in this case, something that didn't wind up completely confusing him. And so rather than pretend as though he understood everything, he turned his palm upwards, glancing down at the mark there while he chewed on his lower lip in thought. It wasn't too long before he lifted his head again, brow still knit together ever so faintly.
"We'd not known what this mark did until we were sent to go face demons at the rift, but then we figured out if we worked together we could use it to close the rift once we'd gotten rid of the demons. That sounds a lot like what happens when mages first realize they're mages to me. So that'd be the same sort of thing, aye?"