That feeling of offense evaporates under the onslaught of words, almost too fast for Reo to follow and certainly too remarkable for him to absorb immediately, and the glow of that pendant.
It's - well, it's one thing to believe in magic in the abstract, with no stronger a confirmation than a sense that he was right to do a tarot reading for this day or that situation. It's another thing entirely to see it made tangible, right here in front of him.
It takes an extra moment, but enough of what she said sinks in for Reo to be sure he's missing nuances. It happens all the time; his English skills are good, but English is a complicated language even before one introduces things like dialects and accents and all the things that happen to a language when it isn't frozen in a textbook for ease of consumption.
Finally, he manages a sentence he never would have expected to hear himself say in any language.
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It's - well, it's one thing to believe in magic in the abstract, with no stronger a confirmation than a sense that he was right to do a tarot reading for this day or that situation. It's another thing entirely to see it made tangible, right here in front of him.
It takes an extra moment, but enough of what she said sinks in for Reo to be sure he's missing nuances. It happens all the time; his English skills are good, but English is a complicated language even before one introduces things like dialects and accents and all the things that happen to a language when it isn't frozen in a textbook for ease of consumption.
Finally, he manages a sentence he never would have expected to hear himself say in any language.
"It's only basketball!"