How does she just come out and say this, gods, she hasn't had to figure it out before. With Stephen, she just showed him, she didn't have to say it out loud. Ness shifts, uncomfortable, while she thinks, weighing the different ways she could go about this.
"I believe entirely in the necessity of the freedom of mages from the Circles," to start, since that seems like it won't necessarily be a controversial opinion with Julius. "But, come the end of this war, it may be more dangerous for someone of my... talent, to be seen as publicly aligned with a person whose position is so... intense?"
This isn't making anything any clearer. Ness signs, and shakes her head, steeling herself, straightening her posture. Out with it, come on.
"Since our first encounter, I've found that the tentacles aren't the only magic of which I am capable. Some of what I can do now, the magic that's revealing itself to me... It comes dangerously close to blood magic. Telepathy, coercion."
Her greatest anxiety, finally revealed. Ness watches Julius carefully, intent on every minute twitch of reaction to this news. She can't help following up with... something, some kind of reassurance, maybe.
"It's not blood magic, it comes entirely from my own power. I've been working to make sure I'm in complete control of it, so I'm not a liability to Riftwatch. I'm doing everything I can to avoid it becoming a problem anyone else has to worry about."
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"No, it's not so bad as all that, it is more..."
How does she just come out and say this, gods, she hasn't had to figure it out before. With Stephen, she just showed him, she didn't have to say it out loud. Ness shifts, uncomfortable, while she thinks, weighing the different ways she could go about this.
"I believe entirely in the necessity of the freedom of mages from the Circles," to start, since that seems like it won't necessarily be a controversial opinion with Julius. "But, come the end of this war, it may be more dangerous for someone of my... talent, to be seen as publicly aligned with a person whose position is so... intense?"
This isn't making anything any clearer. Ness signs, and shakes her head, steeling herself, straightening her posture. Out with it, come on.
"Since our first encounter, I've found that the tentacles aren't the only magic of which I am capable. Some of what I can do now, the magic that's revealing itself to me... It comes dangerously close to blood magic. Telepathy, coercion."
Her greatest anxiety, finally revealed. Ness watches Julius carefully, intent on every minute twitch of reaction to this news. She can't help following up with... something, some kind of reassurance, maybe.
"It's not blood magic, it comes entirely from my own power. I've been working to make sure I'm in complete control of it, so I'm not a liability to Riftwatch. I'm doing everything I can to avoid it becoming a problem anyone else has to worry about."