[How is that not cool? Quentin grew up with Star Trek and Fillory, both with their own weird set of alien beings and an alien invasion sounds... so cool.]
I-- uh, oh. Well, see. In my world, magic works like science? It's-- okay, so how is your meta-math, because it's easier to show it like that than to try and explain.
[He pulls out his notebook from the messenger bag slung over his shoulder and a pencil, sharpened almost halfway down because of all the note-taking. Which, really isn't getting him any closer to finding a solution. He shakes his head and flips it open on a blank page.
He starts writing out the meta-math for a spell that would, potentially, create a heated pool. As long as the pool isn't deeper than three feet and is located to the south-west of the neatest body of water.
The Circumstances surrounding the moon is a little more iffy and he crosses out the first few notes on that, until he can turn the page around for Newt to look at.]
So, uh, all magic is really just energy. Or, it's not, but it's easier to think about it like that. Like, a river of energy that surrounds us. Magicians, we can manipulate this. If we know the Circumstances. If we keep the internal Circumstances in focus and if we know which spell to use.
See? Can you see that part there? That's accounting for the fact that this isn't my earth. And that one? That's for the water, because large bodies of water, they-- pull on magic. Like a gravity well, but for magic. So, to do the spell properly, we need to know where it is.
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I-- uh, oh. Well, see. In my world, magic works like science? It's-- okay, so how is your meta-math, because it's easier to show it like that than to try and explain.
[He pulls out his notebook from the messenger bag slung over his shoulder and a pencil, sharpened almost halfway down because of all the note-taking. Which, really isn't getting him any closer to finding a solution. He shakes his head and flips it open on a blank page.
He starts writing out the meta-math for a spell that would, potentially, create a heated pool. As long as the pool isn't deeper than three feet and is located to the south-west of the neatest body of water.
The Circumstances surrounding the moon is a little more iffy and he crosses out the first few notes on that, until he can turn the page around for Newt to look at.]
So, uh, all magic is really just energy. Or, it's not, but it's easier to think about it like that. Like, a river of energy that surrounds us. Magicians, we can manipulate this. If we know the Circumstances. If we keep the internal Circumstances in focus and if we know which spell to use.
See? Can you see that part there? That's accounting for the fact that this isn't my earth. And that one? That's for the water, because large bodies of water, they-- pull on magic. Like a gravity well, but for magic. So, to do the spell properly, we need to know where it is.