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[stillshrill]

All right. Who besides me has got some echo or memory of doing magic? Real magic, not Houdini stage stuff.

And if you do ... how do you remember people around you taking it? Were you prized for it? Was it just another job, nothing remarkable? Or were you persecuted?

And to what extent, if you were. Minor inconvenience? or Puritan outrage. [ He forces a dry chuckle that doesn't reach his eyes. ] Never again the Burning Times, as they say.

Oh! And what did you use to wear when you were doing magic? Did you use equipment you weren't born with?

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[italktofish]

HAVE I? Aquarium work would be OUTRAGEOUS! My dream job! But I can't really get a job there without any sort of formal education, and it's not like I can go out and TELL them what I can do! Too dangerous with this network stuff, you know?

[stillshrill]

The network stuff could work to your advantage. If you wanted to go a nontraditional route, that is.

I really think the big aquariums need someone like you on the inside. Advocating for the orcas, and the sea lions. Giving them a voice.

[italktofish]

They kicked me OUT of the big aquarium! They said I was a crazy man on drugs!

[stillshrill]

[ INJUSTICE!!! ]

Well, fuck that noise. They just don't want to hear what the orcas have to say to them, do they.

[italktofish]

I think they were just upset with me for falling into the dolphin tank in the first place, really, but when I said they were talking to me, out I went! They got a restraining order and everything!

[stillshrill]

I ought to have guessed. Closed-minded corporate assholes.

What did the dolphins say to you, when you fell in?

[italktofish]

Really, they just wondered if I was okay and why I'd fallen in, but they got OUTRAGEOUSLY excited when they realized I could understand them!

[stillshrill]

Er, not erotically excited, I hope?

[ Anders has heard Stories about dolphins. Possibly urban legends, but, you know. ]

[italktofish]

Great Scott, man, no, they just hadn't talked to anyone before!