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Hello my fellow shipmate captives! I hope we're all enjoying our bizarre beach kidnapping. At least as far as kidnappings go, we have quite the story once we make it back. Or if, if you're feeling cynical today.

[The world's weirdest kidnapping in her opinion at least.]

Anyway, I'm Hawke and I have an incredibly important question for the people on this ship to satisfy my own curiosity. Or I suppose some of the people on this ship. ...Probably.

In the past few days I've gotten such shock and awe [The phrase shock and awe is said in an appropriately dramatic tone!] over the very concept of magic, elves, dwarves, and demons. All of those things I see when I pop my head out my bedroom window back home. Well not demons. Or not usually demons but it did happen once or twice... [Her home is basically the garbage dump of the world, everyone.

ANYWAY. She shakes her head and waves a hand to move the conversation along.]

Fascinating but pointless side information. Magic is the sticking point. And the reason I am making this very important message where my face shows up on the little arm thing. Does anyone else do magic? Blood magic? Elemental magic? Necroph- No, it's Necromancer. Anything at all really? I figure there aren't any templars out to kill mages on this ship so we're at least safe to talk about it for now. That would be doubling down on bad luck.

And on top of that. [She makes a small ball of light appear in her hands and rolls it idly between her fingers.] anyone find that doing magic is suddenly a lot harder than it was back home? On the level of "after casting a few spells, I feel like I'm about to pass out and or vomit"? Sort of thing? Haven't exactly figured how they've done it but they've done it. It's a bit impressive, if not very annoying.

Anyway, magic users, questions, hopefully answers! Maybe we could even start a little club where we drink tea and chat up spells. That sounds delightful.

Oh and I suppose if anyone who's in "shock and awe" about magic, this is the perfect time to get all of your questions out. I really opened up the floodgates.

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[Wanda laughs - she's just going to skim over the elephant in the room of how she got this power.]

I don't drink at all, but I'm not sure that's why.

No. Neither do I, for once. I think it's because my magical abilities are strongly connected to... [Well getting into the Fade is just... too much.] -something back home. Get far away? Have trouble using magic seems like a fairly logical, if annoying, trade off. And that also means that magic is different for nearly every one.

But at least I'm not being hunted here so that's a plus.

That makes sense. My power is...inside. [Wanda may have paled a bit at the mention of being hunted. That hits a little too close to home.]

No one here has had a problem with people like us yet.

['Yet' is always an important qualifier - there's a reason she set the feed to private.]

We're all born from the Fade in our world. So even being far from it still allows us to do magic.

[She gives the other woman a cursory glance over the screen, her mind the exact same place.]

"Yet" being the keyword. But I'll take yet over "definitely, completely, always on your tail".

The Fade? [Sorry Hawke, now that you've given it a name she has to ask.]

The captains don't seem to care if we are useful. They have not forced me to do anything, but...maybe that will change, maybe not. They are hard to read.

[And she does mean that literally.]

The Fade is... [She runs a hand through her short dark hair, messing it up.] It's hard to explain. It's a realm beyond our physical one. All souls were born in the Fade and return after we pass. But mages can enter the Fade willingly and consciously. And it's our connection with the Fade that allows us to do magic.

[A shrug.] It's more complicated than that but I'm no scholar.

Anyway, not being hunted? At least for now? I'll take it.

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