She says it with a half-smile. She clocked his glance at her fingers, but everyone does that a few times when they first meet, and she's gotten used to it. Instead she watches the special care that Stephen takes with his asymmetrical cloak, which admittedly is pretty cool-looking. Hopefully the stains aren't permanent.
"So do you," she says -- even if his magic isn't working quite right, it's easy to see that he's a mage of some kind, and by the look in his eyes when he struggled to create sparks between his hands, he's used to being a lot better at this.
"If you fight stuff like that a lot."
Ellie nods, adjusting her bow -- the light flashes along the side of it, where fade-crystal is embedded near-seamlessly in the wood.
"Yeah. Just Ellie. And you're-" she pulls a face, trying to make sure she heard it right.
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She says it with a half-smile. She clocked his glance at her fingers, but everyone does that a few times when they first meet, and she's gotten used to it. Instead she watches the special care that Stephen takes with his asymmetrical cloak, which admittedly is pretty cool-looking. Hopefully the stains aren't permanent.
"So do you," she says -- even if his magic isn't working quite right, it's easy to see that he's a mage of some kind, and by the look in his eyes when he struggled to create sparks between his hands, he's used to being a lot better at this.
"If you fight stuff like that a lot."
Ellie nods, adjusting her bow -- the light flashes along the side of it, where fade-crystal is embedded near-seamlessly in the wood.
"Yeah. Just Ellie. And you're-" she pulls a face, trying to make sure she heard it right.
"Strange? That sounds like a superhero name."