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[ The message that comes across the network is abrupt, as though the sender thought about sending it and simply did with no further thought. ]

I wish to learn more of the magic of your worlds, of this world. Not only how it works but how to use it.

I can offer a trade, should you require it.

[ After a moment, there's an addendum: ]

If you do not wish to discuss such things over the lockets, dedicate a shrine to the Outsider. I will know. We will speak there.

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I know because of how intensely I feel about him. How much I trust him when I was in a place where I rarely if ever trusted anyone when I first met him. It's hard to explain.

Medusa. Turns people to stone with her stare. I know, not that most traditional or romantic of honeymoons but. I felt it needed to be done at the time for various reasons.

Could the same not be said for other couples?

I see. What does she do with them once they are stone?

Other loves aren't so strong. So powerful to break curses. I'm not sure how else to describe it unless you have it too. But it doesn't just have to be between romantic love. I've seen other cases, where a mother's love for her child broke one curse with True Love.

Nothing as far as I could really tell. They were spread around her place as statues. Freed after I killed her.

Why would a magic user not take such a thing into consideration, then?

I'm not a magic user. You'd have to ask them that create said curses. But probably they can't stop that little detail because good will always win.

That is stupid.

It might seem so to you. But I'm just trying to explain how our magic, or what I know of it, how it works back home in comparison. I'm not even one that actually studied it properly the way others had. My stepmother, for one.

Your world is one of the more unique ones that I have heard about.

Somehow that isn't too surprising. And I haven't gone into being cursed to a land without magic for 28 years. It's all rather complicated, to say the least.

There are other realms within your own world, then? Separated by magic and not by lines drawn on a map?

Something like that? Although the ability to traverse them isn't common. Portals between worlds are difficult, to say the least. The first I experienced such was through a curse that sent us to a land without magic and where we couldn't leave that town, lost our memories of who we were back home.

No, I imagine it would be extraordinarily difficult. It is the same in my own world, though the Void is not a place people live.

the Void?

The Void created and will destroy the world. It is the realm of magic and dreams, and my home.

There is a similarly named entity in this world, though it seeks to devour all; they are different.

You lived there? It sounds more like a place in between realms perhaps. But of course I could be wrong on that. I know when I was under the Sleeping Curse I was kept in the netherworld. The realm between life and death.

There's a 'void' here too?

I am not human. It is not so difficult for me to live in such places.

Yes. The sailors speak of it often; it is a force that seeks to devour this world, and all others.

I guess that shouldn't be too surprising given the nature of this place. I've met fairies and mermaids and all sorts back home. And that's not going into ogres and giants we deal with too.

First I'm hearing of it. If it's sailors though, is that something to do with the ocean? Storms and such?

But are you surprised?

No. We are simply on an island at the moment.

I guess I just didn't consider such places to be somewhere anyone would live. I'm....used to the not human thing at least.

I'm just not sure what it means. This whole war is enough to deal with, let alone considering something like that on top of this.

It is certainly not common in my world.

I believe you'll find that the two are linked.

I can't imagine it would be but then, different worlds.

How so? I only more recently arrived myself, so I don't know nearly so much of this place or its history yet even if I've been given the basics and done a little research in the library a bit.

Read more. Ask around.

[ He has decided to be unhelpful today. Outsider, please. ]

Maybe I will.

[Somehow such a reply almost reminds her of Grumpy and makes her laugh. Almost.]

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