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You confuse me a lot. But you're still my friend.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?-She just smiles-
Do you want to start?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?It felt like... like the world finally decided to listen to what I wanted.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I felt... it was like a buzz. A warm buzz, right... here.
-She taps the left side of her head, where some of the cybernetic scarring is-
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?All magic comes from the Lifestream. Interacting with materia or reaching through your own knowledge lets you use energy from the Lifestream to manipulate things around you. That phenomenon is called magic. The materia has memories of spells, or old stories, or things from the world inside them. The Lifestream lets you use that knowledge as your own, until it actually becomes yours.
I just reach for a place in my head that didn't used to be there before, and another place that lets me nudge around the first one, and I just force it out.
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I don't know how I do it. It's like I'm dreaming, and everything that happens makes perfect sense.
-She takes off her glove again, flexing her fingers-
Sometimes I forget it's fake.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Then how did I do it? I'm not as clever as you.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?-Scratches his neck- Maybe you're just better at it than I am.
Or maybe you're different. Usually, humans can't learn magic without materia, and that's how I learned what I know too. Spells don't really get "invented", I just think up different ways to use the ones I already know with the magic I can do. But you don't even know what one is, and you've never studied magical theory, and you've never had to pull memories from anywhere to do it, so maybe you're more inclined towards learning it than I am.
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What's something I can try to do? Something easy? Something that won't turn me into a wall.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?It's okay.
I did it to myself. I don't get to be mad about it.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I don't know if I can.
I can change things, though. That's what my powers do. Maybe I can change hurt things so that they become not hurt.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

...He promised, I mean.