There was a time I had to destroy a book. In the process I had to undo a seal placed on it.
[This is awkward to talk about. Setting aside his paper he leans back on his hands. What's it been? Two years? A little more than that?]
To do it I entered a magical construct, a maze, the Forbidden Anamnesis. It wasn't real, not like the natural world, but everything about it felt just the same. Every one of my senses were fooled. And to undo the seal? I had to kill people. People I knew were dead. People I'd killed myself before ever entering that dungeon. It felt real.
[He glances at Kaito. At the same time one of his hands turns up, showing the gloved palm. He felt it with this very hand. But that didn't make it real.]
They were just magical artifices to protect the seal. As long as they existed the seal continued and as long as the seal continued the book couldn't be destroyed. [He dropped his hand.] I talked to Tianya. He didn't know anything about the dragon attacks that led us here.
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There was a time I had to destroy a book. In the process I had to undo a seal placed on it.
[This is awkward to talk about. Setting aside his paper he leans back on his hands. What's it been? Two years? A little more than that?]
To do it I entered a magical construct, a maze, the Forbidden Anamnesis. It wasn't real, not like the natural world, but everything about it felt just the same. Every one of my senses were fooled. And to undo the seal? I had to kill people. People I knew were dead. People I'd killed myself before ever entering that dungeon. It felt real.
[He glances at Kaito. At the same time one of his hands turns up, showing the gloved palm. He felt it with this very hand. But that didn't make it real.]
They were just magical artifices to protect the seal. As long as they existed the seal continued and as long as the seal continued the book couldn't be destroyed. [He dropped his hand.] I talked to Tianya. He didn't know anything about the dragon attacks that led us here.