Someone had been less-than-forthcoming about her status with him, too, and it’s been a source of mild harmless consternation ever since. The corner of his mouth twitches; halfway to a smile.
“Alas, I’m useless to you,” Stephen agrees, tongue-in-cheek. “And that sort of person does seem in short supply. It seems like every rifter I know is exceptional in some way. I think— well, for example, Abby doesn’t have any magic or powers that I know of, but I can’t see her being enthused about the prospect of lopping off her hand either.”
The shard is usually located in such a crucial place, and Riftwatch work puts them all in the frontlines so often. A risk. A sacrifice and a trade-off, and not one everyone’s willing to make.
Dry as a desert, continuing, “It’s not like I went to the literal ends of the earth and bankrupted myself and learned magic to keep my hands, or anything. But that is frustrating. Not having the right circumstances or right sample population to be able to find out more.”
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“Alas, I’m useless to you,” Stephen agrees, tongue-in-cheek. “And that sort of person does seem in short supply. It seems like every rifter I know is exceptional in some way. I think— well, for example, Abby doesn’t have any magic or powers that I know of, but I can’t see her being enthused about the prospect of lopping off her hand either.”
The shard is usually located in such a crucial place, and Riftwatch work puts them all in the frontlines so often. A risk. A sacrifice and a trade-off, and not one everyone’s willing to make.
Dry as a desert, continuing, “It’s not like I went to the literal ends of the earth and bankrupted myself and learned magic to keep my hands, or anything. But that is frustrating. Not having the right circumstances or right sample population to be able to find out more.”