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(His new ring will be immediately visible, the color swirling ominously - here, a shade of emerald green and there, inky black. It never settles; never stills. The silver too is cold - almost antiquated in design - and it wraps around a pale, slender finger that does not look wholly human.)

I wonder what spell was used to create such exquisite technology? (There is something pleasing about his voice - the way he pitches it perhaps. His tone invites others to listen.) I am uncomfortable showing my face, so you must settle for my voice, I'm afraid.

(He has taken certain precautions - raising his hood for one and tilting the feed so that only his chest can be seen.)

My world isn't terribly different from this one. We have great dragons, yet your turtle would dwarf them all!

(A shift in tone - this one hinting at amusement.)

I can only respect a power that was able to take me from my world and show me another. Yet I was...busy...you see. Terribly busy. What will become of my work?

I am more than happy to lend my aid - (Here, his voice hardens the slightest bit for a listener with keen ears.) However isn't it kinder to ask first?

(No, no, don't ignore the way your stomach dropped. That is a chilling amount of anger behind those friendly words.)

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A General... what were you fighting for?

You are one who can use magic also?

The future of the world - Magical and Muggle. I believe Wizards and Witches deserve their rightful place.

Yes.

What is a Muggle? Is a Witch a woman that can use magic?

Someone who cannot use Magic. (Though that isn't the most refined definition. Squibs can barely use Magic, but they are born into Magical families.) That is correct.

And they are all human, yes?

Yes. (But...lesser in his opinion.) On a very basic level.

All humans burn very brightly, like stars in a sea of shadow. But they are all different.

I suppose. (Magic burns brightest for him.) Those with power should rule.

All things hold power. So all things rule, yes?

In their respective domains, but they must keep to them when greater power looms.

You speak as though all things should be separated.

Separated, ordered and under the rule of those most worthy.

Worthiness has no meaning.

What you believe to be order will either destroy all things or destroy you.

Oh but it does. Power makes one worthy. Magic makes one worthy.

Do I seem...destroyed?

You do not seem destroyed. But you resemble my mother in her last days. Your countenance, your arrogance, your belief that only the powerful can reign. You lack only her wisdom tempered with eons, and her power.

You would not be so quick to pass judgement if we were face to face, I think. I respect your opinion - even if I find it sorely lacking in evidence and wisdom.

You are human, yes? Humans could not carry the power she had, for it would rend them into something less than a shadow. And humans were not meant to know the stretch of eternity as she knew it. It would drive their minds to madness and to silence.

I have been a shadow - a ghost. I have been revived. You could say I am less human than any has a right to be.

I am sorry. Is there a way to make you human again?

You assume I wish to be human.

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