I take some risks, [ Matt muses. ] Risking arrest, maybe. And I suppose I always risk hurting people, but it doesn't feel that way.
[ Cryptic, perhaps. Matt's thinking about the magical wards he's spent so long designing and secreting onto alley walls. Magic always comes with risks; it's too big not to. But when Matt sets up a spell just right, when he reaches out to the universe and feels its answer--that's always right. It always feels like he's exactly where he's supposed to be, doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing. Like he couldn't deviate from rightness any more than a planet could fall off its course.
The remark about fighting cleaves straight through this reverie. Taken by surprise, Matt laughs. ]
A good fight? [ Slight emphasis on fight, amused but not disbelieving. ] I'll have to take your word for it. The closest I ever came to fighting was being bullied in school, and I managed to slip out of that one.
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[ Cryptic, perhaps. Matt's thinking about the magical wards he's spent so long designing and secreting onto alley walls. Magic always comes with risks; it's too big not to. But when Matt sets up a spell just right, when he reaches out to the universe and feels its answer--that's always right. It always feels like he's exactly where he's supposed to be, doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing. Like he couldn't deviate from rightness any more than a planet could fall off its course.
The remark about fighting cleaves straight through this reverie. Taken by surprise, Matt laughs. ]
A good fight? [ Slight emphasis on fight, amused but not disbelieving. ] I'll have to take your word for it. The closest I ever came to fighting was being bullied in school, and I managed to slip out of that one.