Amanda and Ty || After Magic Class
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xp_logs Ty has some questions for Amanda.
Ty waited until the classroom had cleared out before he approached
Amanda. He stuffed his hands in his pockets as he walked up to her.
"So, the different types of magic," he started. "Do they effect the
users in different ways?"
Amanda looked up from the notes she was shuffling back into a pile.
"Well, yeah," she said, raising an eyebrow. "It goes into the sources
thing that I was talking about a few weeks ago - where the magical
energy comes from can impact the spell and the user."
"Does magic pass through the user, or do they just manipulate
it?" He could feel the tenseness in his shoulders as he tried to
absorb every bit of information.
The witch frowned, considering the question. "I'm not sure what you
mean by 'pass through'," she admitted after a moment. "Magic isn't
like the sort of energy you have in physics - it doesn't stick to the
same laws. It's really more dependent on the magic user and what they
use as a power source for their spells. If it's ambient magical energy
that you're talking about, if the user has the ability, either as a
mutation or they're trained that way, they can take it into themselves
and convert it into spells. Otherwise, it's something you can sense,
depending on how much there is, but it's not like radiation or
something where it builds up in you and kills you unless you wear the
goofy rubber suit."
Ty rubbed the back of his head, not looking at Amanda. He cleared his
throat before he spoke again. "What if it never comes back out? Sort
of... disappears?"
Amanda sighed. "All right, let's stop this beating around the bush.
You've obviously got something specific in mind - how about you
tell me and stop wasting both of our time?"
"Pretty sure my power wants to eat magic things. I wasn't the eating
machine I usually am in Asgard, and there was a lot more ambient
magic there. It's been a few years, but I remember what happened at
that church when my hunger consumed all the light and heat there. I'm
a little afraid of it getting out of control." The words tumbled out
of his mouth like he couldn't stop them, and he couldn't look at
Amanda when he finished.
"Ah. Now this? This is useful." Amanda couldn't help but be reminded
of her own beginnings, back when she had the magic addiction and
wondered how it was for Tyrone. "Okay, what you're talking about, it's
a bit like how magic users operate. Only for them, energy goes in, and
then it comes back out again as a spell of some sort. For you... you
said it just disappears?" At his nod, she continued. "So less of an
energy converter and more of an energy... consumer, I s'pose." She
chewed on her thumbnail, thinking things over. "The real problem here
is that there's nowhere near the amount of ambient magical energy on
earth as there is on Asgard. So that's going to make things hard for
you, to get readjusted to the lower levels. Which means we should
probably look at a way to feed you that doesn't rely on magic, but
also doesn't mess up anything else." She eyed him speculatively. "You
said light is good?"
Ty tried not to look as embarrassed as he felt. "It wasn't really
voluntary, it happened when I was terrified, but yeah, I think I
wasn't hungry for about five minutes."
"What kinds of light was it? Ordinary electricity-type light, like a
street light, or something more specific?"
“ALL the light was gone,” he said. “The candles, the electric lights,
you couldn’t even see light coming in from outside.”
"Hmm." Amanda considered this for a time. "It sounds like that your
mutation lets you consume any kind of energy, not just magic. Which is
good, since if it was just magic, you'd be having a serious jones by
now after being in Asgard. I know I had trouble getting used to normal
levels after I was there." She paused, then asked, as if a thought had
just struck her. "Have you worked much with the light generators?
Tandy and Allison and the other one... Nica?"
Ty coughed. "They're going to think I'm some sort of pervert." That
didn't stop his embarrassed grin.
Amanda rolled her eyes. Boys. "Well, I wasn't going to suggest that you just go up to one of them and say 'hey, can I eat your light?'" she pointed out. "But if you say you need some help with powers training, they'll probably go for it. And you're all with Gen X, aren't you?"
This time the grin turned wry and self-depreciating. “Still, yeah. I’ll bring it up to one of them. Could be some interesting training. Maybe get someone to observe, see if we can see exactly what happens.”
"Sounds like you've got a plan there."
Ty waited until the classroom had cleared out before he approached
Amanda. He stuffed his hands in his pockets as he walked up to her.
"So, the different types of magic," he started. "Do they effect the
users in different ways?"
Amanda looked up from the notes she was shuffling back into a pile.
"Well, yeah," she said, raising an eyebrow. "It goes into the sources
thing that I was talking about a few weeks ago - where the magical
energy comes from can impact the spell and the user."
"Does magic pass through the user, or do they just manipulate
it?" He could feel the tenseness in his shoulders as he tried to
absorb every bit of information.
The witch frowned, considering the question. "I'm not sure what you
mean by 'pass through'," she admitted after a moment. "Magic isn't
like the sort of energy you have in physics - it doesn't stick to the
same laws. It's really more dependent on the magic user and what they
use as a power source for their spells. If it's ambient magical energy
that you're talking about, if the user has the ability, either as a
mutation or they're trained that way, they can take it into themselves
and convert it into spells. Otherwise, it's something you can sense,
depending on how much there is, but it's not like radiation or
something where it builds up in you and kills you unless you wear the
goofy rubber suit."
Ty rubbed the back of his head, not looking at Amanda. He cleared his
throat before he spoke again. "What if it never comes back out? Sort
of... disappears?"
Amanda sighed. "All right, let's stop this beating around the bush.
You've obviously got something specific in mind - how about you
tell me and stop wasting both of our time?"
"Pretty sure my power wants to eat magic things. I wasn't the eating
machine I usually am in Asgard, and there was a lot more ambient
magic there. It's been a few years, but I remember what happened at
that church when my hunger consumed all the light and heat there. I'm
a little afraid of it getting out of control." The words tumbled out
of his mouth like he couldn't stop them, and he couldn't look at
Amanda when he finished.
"Ah. Now this? This is useful." Amanda couldn't help but be reminded
of her own beginnings, back when she had the magic addiction and
wondered how it was for Tyrone. "Okay, what you're talking about, it's
a bit like how magic users operate. Only for them, energy goes in, and
then it comes back out again as a spell of some sort. For you... you
said it just disappears?" At his nod, she continued. "So less of an
energy converter and more of an energy... consumer, I s'pose." She
chewed on her thumbnail, thinking things over. "The real problem here
is that there's nowhere near the amount of ambient magical energy on
earth as there is on Asgard. So that's going to make things hard for
you, to get readjusted to the lower levels. Which means we should
probably look at a way to feed you that doesn't rely on magic, but
also doesn't mess up anything else." She eyed him speculatively. "You
said light is good?"
Ty tried not to look as embarrassed as he felt. "It wasn't really
voluntary, it happened when I was terrified, but yeah, I think I
wasn't hungry for about five minutes."
"What kinds of light was it? Ordinary electricity-type light, like a
street light, or something more specific?"
“ALL the light was gone,” he said. “The candles, the electric lights,
you couldn’t even see light coming in from outside.”
"Hmm." Amanda considered this for a time. "It sounds like that your
mutation lets you consume any kind of energy, not just magic. Which is
good, since if it was just magic, you'd be having a serious jones by
now after being in Asgard. I know I had trouble getting used to normal
levels after I was there." She paused, then asked, as if a thought had
just struck her. "Have you worked much with the light generators?
Tandy and Allison and the other one... Nica?"
Ty coughed. "They're going to think I'm some sort of pervert." That
didn't stop his embarrassed grin.
Amanda rolled her eyes. Boys. "Well, I wasn't going to suggest that you just go up to one of them and say 'hey, can I eat your light?'" she pointed out. "But if you say you need some help with powers training, they'll probably go for it. And you're all with Gen X, aren't you?"
This time the grin turned wry and self-depreciating. “Still, yeah. I’ll bring it up to one of them. Could be some interesting training. Maybe get someone to observe, see if we can see exactly what happens.”
"Sounds like you've got a plan there."
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