"Well, to be fair, it was the others who figured it out first. The people I was with have magic in their worlds, and I think that gave them an idea of what to try. I just did what they told me to do."
Granted, it hasn't been the first time he's wound up following someone else's instructions. That is something he's more than familiar with doing by now. It's just the part of it where he'd been able to direct that sort of green energy or whatever it was at the rift out of his hand that had been strange. He supposes having something suddenly happen had been strange for Detlef as well, although he has the feeling that the mage wasn't thinking so much about it being odd as he was thinking about the fact that things were suddenly on fire. That can't have been a good thing, and he finds himself feeling for the young lad that had found himself in that situation.
He's clearly gotten training since, though, and when the tiny fireball appears on Detlef's hand, Jamie winds up staring at it, his attention caught by the way it hovers and rolls around while being unsupported. Most the magic he's seen here has been in the heat of combat, with one or two exceptions, so seeing it just there is still rare enough that he the sight was one that he couldn't help but view with a bit of wonder. Once it vanishes, he comes back to himself, refocusing with a small shake of his head.
"At least you've got people that can teach you, though. I'm not sure that we'll be as lucky, given everything that's happened. What do you think? Is training better or would it be better if you just had to guess at everything to figure out what works with your magic?"
The question isn't meant to be judgmental. In fact, there's a look of genuine curiosity on his face as he asks it. There's a part of him that really does want to know, even though he has doubts he'll be able to get any sort of training when it comes to the mark. Anything they do with that is likely to be guesswork, with neither training or intuition to help. But on the off chance someone does turn up that knows more, it'd be good to know if he should go seek them out or not.
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Granted, it hasn't been the first time he's wound up following someone else's instructions. That is something he's more than familiar with doing by now. It's just the part of it where he'd been able to direct that sort of green energy or whatever it was at the rift out of his hand that had been strange. He supposes having something suddenly happen had been strange for Detlef as well, although he has the feeling that the mage wasn't thinking so much about it being odd as he was thinking about the fact that things were suddenly on fire. That can't have been a good thing, and he finds himself feeling for the young lad that had found himself in that situation.
He's clearly gotten training since, though, and when the tiny fireball appears on Detlef's hand, Jamie winds up staring at it, his attention caught by the way it hovers and rolls around while being unsupported. Most the magic he's seen here has been in the heat of combat, with one or two exceptions, so seeing it just there is still rare enough that he the sight was one that he couldn't help but view with a bit of wonder. Once it vanishes, he comes back to himself, refocusing with a small shake of his head.
"At least you've got people that can teach you, though. I'm not sure that we'll be as lucky, given everything that's happened. What do you think? Is training better or would it be better if you just had to guess at everything to figure out what works with your magic?"
The question isn't meant to be judgmental. In fact, there's a look of genuine curiosity on his face as he asks it. There's a part of him that really does want to know, even though he has doubts he'll be able to get any sort of training when it comes to the mark. Anything they do with that is likely to be guesswork, with neither training or intuition to help. But on the off chance someone does turn up that knows more, it'd be good to know if he should go seek them out or not.