be discreet

[msmage]

It's not much later, in Isabella's room, that she asks:

"So... is Alex really a dom?"

Comments

[mrmage]

Hug!

He doesn't seem to be depressed or anything over it, just sort of matter-of-fact. "And how was your afternoon?"

[eclipsi]

"Uneventful. Lots of sorting my memory out, I think I got a good efficiency jump."

[mrmage]

"Really? What happened?"

[eclipsi]

"Mm - does it make any sense if I say I streamlined the metadata by which I call up a memory?"

[mrmage]

"Lemme parse that," he says, and thinks for a second. "You made the... associations... or whatever-it-is that's information about which memory is which more organized or easier to read or something along those lines?"

[eclipsi]

"Sort of, yeah."

[mrmage]

"What is your metadata?"

[eclipsi]

"Times, places, emotions, people who were present, subjects I was thinking about, weather, all kinds of stuff."

[mrmage]

"And what changed between before and now?"

[eclipsi]

"I have it more systematized. Like, the places and times - nest."

[mrmage]

"Nest? Like, a tree structure or something?"

[eclipsi]

"Yeah. If I'm thinking of a particular Tuesday, now that day's noon and four o'clock and so on go inside it."

[mrmage]

"Wow. I'm. Kinda jealous."

[eclipsi]

"Psionics is cool!"

[mrmage]

"It really is! After we take over the world and make everyone immortal and fix everything we need to find a way to share magic."

[eclipsi]

"Ooh."

[mrmage]

"We shall be the first mage-psions in the world!"

[eclipsi]

"Mm-hm! And oh the synergy there shall be."

[mrmage]

"Right? I can't wait to figure out what lies at the end of the magic rainbow."

[eclipsi]

"The magic rainbow," she snorts.

[mrmage]

"Yes, you know, all those things no one's found out because no one's lived long enough to."

[eclipsi]

"Well, there are immortal mages older than we are. We might not make all forthcoming discoveries to be made."

[mrmage]

"And they have somehow failed to make immortality an everyone thing."

[eclipsi]

"I didn't say they were the best possible immortal mages."

[mrmage]

"It sounds like at its worse merely a range and scale problem. Surely if someone focuses on that for long enough they'd be able to encompass the whole world? Or at least a small city?"