[ He really can't answer it any better than that. Without effort, anyway. ]
You can't conjure something out of thin air. [ A beat. ] Well, you can, but they're just illusions.
Something similar to "ice magic" — [ He even does the air quotes. ] — just doesn't add up. You'd have to change some things in the air for ice to appear. That's at least how alchemy should work.
[ And he puts his hands behind his back again to stand all prim and proper-like once he's done with his short speech. ]
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[ He really can't answer it any better than that. Without effort, anyway. ]
You can't conjure something out of thin air. [ A beat. ] Well, you can, but they're just illusions.
Something similar to "ice magic" — [ He even does the air quotes. ] — just doesn't add up. You'd have to change some things in the air for ice to appear. That's at least how alchemy should work.
[ And he puts his hands behind his back again to stand all prim and proper-like once he's done with his short speech. ]
But that's not real, either.