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[Xzana was finally convinced that the sudden and strange influx of humans was really done and began emerging from the bottom of the lake more and more. Between feeling less crowded and the heavy rain she is in a remarkably good mood.

She dances in the rain for a bit and climbs a few trees. Then finally checks out that strange book that is always following her around. She had been told it was magic, but being unable to read it's never been something she cared much about. That is until she realized it talks! Listen to all the different voices!

Huh, but then the voices pause. She gives the book a shake. Huh, how do you get this silly thing to work. She drops it on the ground and bats at it. Managing to turn the video function on by mistake. She bounces back and forth for the camera in the rain. Prodding the book now and then.]

Talk magic book! [She circles the book, waiting for it to respond.] Speak again! [She gives it a gentle shove before jumping back a bit and running from it a bit before coming back.] Are you tired, book?

[Today she is full of energy and wanting to play. She'll be in possibly the best mood if anyone feels like braving the heavy rain and spot her playing with the book near the lake.]

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A curse? Oh no, magic for humans is a gift from the spirits of the earth and sky of long past.

[Keeps up that small grin.] Somewhere along the line those spirits got demonized then, eh.

No, the spirits of the earth are pure and cannot be demonized.

Maybe it's different in other worlds.

Magic was a gift given out of pureness by the people of old. If it has been demonized it is by those who would misuse that gift. To simply have it is not a demon.

[That gets a truly gentle grin from Marco.]

Thank you Xzana, that's wiser than you might know.

It is something everyone from my home knows. That it is the will of the people that magic becomes harmful, not the gift itself.

Aye. It's not having strength, it's how you use it.

It's not exactly a personal concern of mine, [Like he'd have a problem with being evil =\] but I've started to run into a lot more people who are bothered by it. It's strange and familiar all at once, eh.

I wonder if they are bothered only that they do not have it themselves.

I've wondered that too, but I'm not always sure. I think it's more a fear, eh? Simply having more power won't make that fear go away.

Hm, maybe, but I find usually they are jealous. [Or so she thinks.]

[Grins anyway.] Could be. I know that's the case for a lot of pirates in my world at least.

[And he just delights in it, which obviously helps their case.]

What so ever the reason may be. You should be proud to have the use of magic.

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I don't know about "proud," but I wouldn't trade my phoenix side for nearly anything, eh?

When I was younger I at times wished to not be so closely connected to the water. Now I know how foolish that was.

It's a gift too, eh? So long as you use it like that.

Yes, it is the gift of life.

No sense in refusing it then, eh?

To refuse it, is to refuse life.

Why did you wish to be more distant from it when you were younger?

If you don't mind my asking.

I wanted to walk on land as did some of my brothers and sisters. I felt trapped in the little pool that I grew larger in. I was lucky that my body just had not grown yet.

You've got siblings? Are they not like you, or was it it just that they're older?

We were from the same nest, but each mix blood is a bit different. Some are able to cope with the various ways our bodies form, other do not. My mother has laid new eggs with a good mate. Those will grow as they should and be more alike.

Understood. My brothers are all different from me as well. I'm the only phoenix, and they're all usually a lot taller than me, but our differences help each other out, eh? Thatch and Vista are good at swords, Jozu's like a diamond boulder, and Atomos is like a charging bull.

You are a half breed?

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