Stephen has drifted away from the tables of supplies; arms crossed, now standing with a crinkled brow as he watches Mobius and processes all of that information.
“A chemical dependency in every single Templar?” he says. Which 1) is alarming, from a medical standpoint, but 2) explains a few things. Maybe he should’ve questioned Mobius’ capabilities more, stopped to wonder how the hell he accomplished it without being a mage — but, coming from his own world, he’d assumed that sometimes people just do extraordinary stuff. That’s how the universe works. Maybe the templar abilities just came from training.
Not so.
“So that’s how you have your powers. Is it a tradeoff? If you go into withdrawal and kick the habit, then you can’t do your magic nullification thing anymore? Are there any other side-effects— enhanced strength, stamina, anything?”
There’s a constant push-and-pull between Stephen’s identities as sorcerer or doctor; right now, he’s verging back into the latter, immediately wanting to know all the effects of the addictive magical compound. If he’s going to look after the health of these people, he has to know these things.
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“A chemical dependency in every single Templar?” he says. Which 1) is alarming, from a medical standpoint, but 2) explains a few things. Maybe he should’ve questioned Mobius’ capabilities more, stopped to wonder how the hell he accomplished it without being a mage — but, coming from his own world, he’d assumed that sometimes people just do extraordinary stuff. That’s how the universe works. Maybe the templar abilities just came from training.
Not so.
“So that’s how you have your powers. Is it a tradeoff? If you go into withdrawal and kick the habit, then you can’t do your magic nullification thing anymore? Are there any other side-effects— enhanced strength, stamina, anything?”
There’s a constant push-and-pull between Stephen’s identities as sorcerer or doctor; right now, he’s verging back into the latter, immediately wanting to know all the effects of the addictive magical compound. If he’s going to look after the health of these people, he has to know these things.