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Telemain hasn't been in the bar in months. Which is why he doesn't expect his door to open to it, which is why he doesn't look up from the book he's reading while he walks, which is why he collides with a chair.

"Oh my," he manages, a few long moments later when it's all sunk in.

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He plans on possibly either writing in the margins every one hundred pages or so to 'go see Morwen,' or putting papers into the older, more important books that don't already have notes scribbled all over them.

Whether he remembers this five minutes from now is another question, but!

"I met someone here who knew you, this afternoon. Dee- something with a D."

It could work, if he remembers to implement it.
"...Dominic? It's been a while, but I haven't met many people who would be 'something with a D.'"
Process of elimination.

"That's him." It figures, that she remembers weeks, months later, and he can't recall back to this afternoon.

"He was very interesting. A professor, you know."

Well, one of them has to have their head on straight.
"I imagine the two of you got to talking theory." And there's that amused tone again. But Dominic had at least seemed like someone who would be able to keep up with Telemain - and that can be crucial.

"Yes. And it's very refreshing to do so with someone who actually has a solid background in magic."

It's difficult, stopping to explain yourself all the time.

"Even magic that operates on different principles?"
Well, if he'd use smaller words the first time, he wouldn't have to stop and explain himself as often.
But that's an old argument. (And it still is an argument, of sorts.)

One he may not be too keen to have with her, having actually lost a friend over a fight about language.

He's still kind of upset about that, actually, which is why he's resolutely not thinking about it.

"Yes. And educational. You can learn a lot about what something is merely by pin pointing exactly what it is not."

She wouldn't take it to that extreme, largely because Telemain fails at taking care of himself without the aid of constant prodding (and really, who else would do that?). But then, she can keep up with him.
By dint of a lot of practice, yes, but she can keep up.
"Naturally. And some of the terminology changes are rather interesting, as well."

(OOC: And this is where I need to call slowtime; I'm definitely up for continuing as I'm available tomorrow.
We totally need to do this more often. XD)

It was more a case of a young person disliking being corrected.

A lot. And a fairly evil young person, though Telemain was a little too naive to see so. It was probably for the best.

"I didn't talk with him long enough to get a sense of it."

[ooc: yes, absolutely! Catch you later, and I think we should launch some Plot or whatnot, because it has been forever and a day]

"I'd meant more the general sweep of terminology in here. Virtually everyone else I've talked to whose world has some form of magic doesn't consider wizards as much of a nuisance."

(OOC: ...Whatever this Plot may be, I feel like the cats should play a crucial role. They would be smug forever and it would also be hilarious.)

"In my experience, that's merely a question of definitions. Our criteria for the difference between a wizard and a magician are specific and important, whereas in most alternate realities a wizard practices enchanting and the like, and a magician is a peddler of tricks and slights of hand."

Telemain sounds a bit put out by this. It's an irritating assumption to correct over and over. He doesn't even own a deck of cards.

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