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[ The return is a bit disorienting, especially compared to teleportation magic. Cale nearly trips over his seat but pretends that he didn't. ]

...That is a good question. Thirteen doesn't seem to care about balance, so who knows?

Balance, huh?

[ A little laugh, as he pulls back into the chair and leans back a little ]

So that's why I wondered if it might be the Familiar bonds were made through them. Perhaps there's even other links made that way.

Yeah. It's an important thing.

[ Important and annoying. Though it makes him wonder how Thirteen is handling all the accumulated karma, or if karma even exists in this realm.

And, if it doesn't, how he could use that to his advantage in avoiding more threats of godhood. ]

What you showed me makes it seem like these spoons are more like wands than wallets. With that in mind it wouldn't be surprising if they were used as catalysts for other connections.

Ironically, I actually generated another wand with them yesterday.

[ This is... not that relevant, but the connection amused him. ]

... You're an Elementalist and a magic swordsman?

[ Wow. This guy is more of a munchkin than Cale expected. ]

Oh please, I don't have the mana for that. [ Understatement. As far as he knew, he didn't have any actionable mana as that other world understood it. ] It's just a magic tool that a Magister made for me once upon an adventure in a desert.

Uh-huh. [ Even if Lex doesn't have mana, Cale is still a bit skeptical. ] But you're at least an elemental swordsman, right?

I mean, that'd be your term. I'd certainly never use it.

[ That's ... it's technically a deflection, he supposed, but at the same time he also just has never heard that term before, so. While he can infer its meaning, he doesn't really think it applies, necessarily. ]

Your spirit friends don't add elemental aspects to your sword? [ The elementals of the Elves and Dark Elves all seems delighted to lend their powers to arrows and blades so he thought the spirits would be similar, but maybe not. ]

[ Oh. Huh. Honestly, the term made that sound much more... theatrical, in his head. Lex brushes his hand on the hilt of the thing on huis belt before settling in and finding his way to making another one of those lettuce taco things. ]

Ah, well, if you're asking that - the metal this thing's made up is very electrically conductive. Using them to make it spark's a trick I've used before.

[ Huh. Neat. Cale wouldn't have pegged this guy as someone who favoured lightning. ]

Have you tried creating a blade of wind around your sword? You can use wind to increase the speed of your swings.

I've thought about it, but to maintain that for more than a strike or two I'd either need more spirits contracted or more complex ones. [ At least, in his own experience, from his own tests of it. ]

It's more efficient usually to have them work around on my lungs or ankles or parts of my body to increase the speed there. Wind's more sympathetic to flesh than it is to most metals.

[ At least within the Logic he knows. ]

It would be interesting to see your world's spirits and my world's elementals interact.

[ There seem to be both a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. ]

Yeah, well, maybe you can try calling some of 'em here through the spoon. Or maybe the Fox'll see some 'potential' in them and we'll get the chance.

[ Or... well, anything more than that's far, far too ahead of things. ]

I have no ability to contract with elementals, so I don't know if it would work. It would be nice to have some here... [ The three that usually follow him around — the Thief's old friends — especially, even if they were a bit...odd. ]

But elementals should be able to live freely. They wouldn't have that option in this place.

What of this place renders it impossible for them to live freely?

[ He muses this out - his tone deliberately a little floaty, implying that he isn't really committing to one opinion or the other. He's curious why Cale is saying that while trying to reserve whatever opinion he himself has as he puts meat and tries other fillings in this lettuce. ]

Thirteen's involvement.

[ Cale saw those Foxboxes and, while elementals are certainly not pets, what happened sets precedence for the captivity of sentient beings. ]

I wouldn't trust her to always let my elemental allies live with the freedoms they're accustomed to.

Doesn't that apply to all of us too?

[ His eyes turn a light green color, a smirk on his lips. Again, curious. ]

[ He looks away with a small scoff. ]

Obviously.

But we're not embodiments of nature. They are meant to be among the freest of beings.

So we're damned to these bodies, bound to some destiny of the flesh?

What the hell are you talking about? Maybe you don't like yours but I like this body of mine.

And 'destiny' is bullshit. Do what you want without worrying about that nonsense.

Oh please, I like myself plenty! But you just said that elementals are free for what they are! Thus, by implication, we who are bound to flesh are doomed to that flesh - and lack of freedom.

[ He says this with a little smirk growing even bigger on his face. He's just playing with his words. ]

...Not really? There are ways around it, though I would consider all of them unpleasant.

--It was a figure of speech, my man.

[ But now he's both curious a little put out at his guy just talking about out of body experiences. Huff. ]

...

[ Ahem. Well then.

Maybe he's gotten too used to beings questioning his status as a mortal human, so his new default is to assume literal instead of figurative...

Cale elegantly stuffs a tteokbokki into his mouth and looks away. ]

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