Gregor will overlook the gracelessness. Things happen sometimes. He'll just pretend he didn't see anything, though he is a bit concerned about this guy being on a boat. Thankfully it's not in the water.
"Hm, maybe it means something else where you're from, but magic doesn't have to be unexplainable. It's just a word we use for a certain kind of power. I'm sure there's some explanation behind it. Something about brain waves and physics, probably— science is not my field." As if that weren't obvious.
"I seem to remember some research in the '60s, but— that doesn't mean anything to you. Anyway, it never came to much, and as I said we're not very public. Hard to study things that don't want to be studied." And without a single break in step: "What's a lineage factor?"
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"Hm, maybe it means something else where you're from, but magic doesn't have to be unexplainable. It's just a word we use for a certain kind of power. I'm sure there's some explanation behind it. Something about brain waves and physics, probably— science is not my field." As if that weren't obvious.
"I seem to remember some research in the '60s, but— that doesn't mean anything to you. Anyway, it never came to much, and as I said we're not very public. Hard to study things that don't want to be studied." And without a single break in step: "What's a lineage factor?"