willpowerful: look at me hooray for me look look i did the thing (CLAPS ☆ i live for the applause-plause)
Sypha Belnades ([personal profile] willpowerful) wrote in [personal profile] cryptsleeper 2019-01-19 11:55 pm (UTC)

I practice several arts.

[Yes, good, there we go. The topic has shifted back to something safe and familiar, something she could talk about at length in her sleep. (Little does she know she actually does talk in her sleep. It's not as though she's ever been awake to hear it.)

But off they go again, trotting along at Alucard's pace, drawing ever closer to their destination as they make their way down the secluded path toward town.]


Speakers dress their girls to look like boys, to protect them as they travel. I learned from this practice and do something similar with my magic. People see what they wish to see, and what they expect to. So I practice magic, and I also practice tricks. When people see you as a stage magician first, they assume that the real magic they witness is...just a trick too clever to be explained. I've been doing both since I was young.

[She pauses.]

Since...I was old enough to understand the importance of pulling my own weight. There are always people who will pay money to be told stories they wish to be told. I am very good at giving them what they want. And so, I help.

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