[ Charlie doesn't deign to respond to that. True, Dorian is almost criminally attractive, but right now he's finding his attitude insufferable at best.
He leans back in his seat. ] I guess you could say it's a combination of things. Wizards are selfish, they don't like to share, and maybe that's where the fault lies, I'm willing to admit that. But in this day and age? It's far too late to come out and start throwing our magic around and have everyone be okay with that.
If you can imagine for a moment, a world without magic. A world where everyone is mundane, normal people, living mundane normal lives, and then one day some guy shows up and says that the world is not as mundane as you think, and starts flinging spells around. Suddenly there are people out there with unknown kinds of power that do not follow the laws of reality as you've come to know them.
People are going to panic. Governments are going to want to know if this is something they can use. Scientists are going to want to know how it works, and if they can duplicate it through artificial means. Mothers are going to wonder just how many more of them are out there, and will they set my children on fire? And we, who want to live normal lives, will not be able to because of the things we can do.
Maybe two thousand years ago, coexistence could have happened, but I wasn't around back then, and I don't know why it didn't. Maybe someone tried and it went badly, or maybe they didn't try at all, but the fact of the matter is, we've been a secret for too long.
So I'm sorry, but you're going to have to forget the notion that- respected, feared or leashed- mages are something that is a normal part of life, because here? We're only stories.
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He leans back in his seat. ] I guess you could say it's a combination of things. Wizards are selfish, they don't like to share, and maybe that's where the fault lies, I'm willing to admit that. But in this day and age? It's far too late to come out and start throwing our magic around and have everyone be okay with that.
If you can imagine for a moment, a world without magic. A world where everyone is mundane, normal people, living mundane normal lives, and then one day some guy shows up and says that the world is not as mundane as you think, and starts flinging spells around. Suddenly there are people out there with unknown kinds of power that do not follow the laws of reality as you've come to know them.
People are going to panic. Governments are going to want to know if this is something they can use. Scientists are going to want to know how it works, and if they can duplicate it through artificial means. Mothers are going to wonder just how many more of them are out there, and will they set my children on fire? And we, who want to live normal lives, will not be able to because of the things we can do.
Maybe two thousand years ago, coexistence could have happened, but I wasn't around back then, and I don't know why it didn't. Maybe someone tried and it went badly, or maybe they didn't try at all, but the fact of the matter is, we've been a secret for too long.
So I'm sorry, but you're going to have to forget the notion that- respected, feared or leashed- mages are something that is a normal part of life, because here? We're only stories.