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(un: p. carter )

[ some of you might have seen this username on the network before. she isn't a stranger to responding to other people's messages, nor to holding private conversation but as for addressing the entire network, well. this is certainly a first time.

peggy carter is in her office in the riverview police force. it's a slow afternoon, which is the only reason for this little message, really. ]

They're really quite attached to their celebrations aren't they. If I have to secure another event, be it a dance ball, a speed dating evening or anything that involves ribbons, glitter, gifts and large, outdoor parties, I fear I may have to file a complaint. Honestly now, this is getting out hand.

[ no one needs this amount of cheer, surely. ]

More importantly, I am searching for someone who might understand a thing or two about what makes these little devices tick.

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[You know what people say about Necromancers and their bones.

Ignore that.]

I suppose it is a bit extravagant, but the alternative is realizing we're countless untold distances from home, isn't it? Personally, I'd rather a party.

[He chuckles.]

Quite the opposite, really. The healers are true sticklers for their science, assuring everyone that all healing is possible without the aid of magic, and the other philosophy, of course, comes from Spirit mages who insist if they can't mend it, it isn't mendable. Personally, I've never found the fault in science, and magic has its limitations. We need a bit of both.

[He nods. He can certainly get behind that.]

A pleasure to virtually make your acquaintance, Serah Carter.

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Can a party truly make one forget that? I have work in my own world. Helping this one takes one step closer to returning to my own.

[ and here, she has found other things she couldn't have at home. steve is alive, alive and well. it creates a contrast she would rather not think about.

maybe he has a point. ]

and yourself, Mr. Dorian. Do you specialize in both, then?

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Well, no, but it can certainly distract you for a time. [He nods.] And so it does.

Please, Dorian will suffice. None of my titles hold any weight here. [Suggesting he does hold some weight in his own world, but that's neither here nor there.]

Specialize? Hardly. I am a mage. It is how I was born, what I am, and who I am. Science? Well, I've read many things regarding it, and several more since coming to this world. Do I consider myself a scientist? Hardly. There's far too much I don't know. I am, though, a researcher and an archivist among other things.

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If I'm to give up the honorific, then surely you would show me the same courtesy.

[ and call her peggy. equal terms is something of a feat for her, especially since her arrival here. ]

A humble man.

[ she has not met many of those. ]

A mage must be born, I imagine? it's not an art one can learn?

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Peggy it is, then. [He inclines his head with smile and a slight chuckle at his own expense.]

A man with a sense of propriety, at any rate. Few, however, have called me humble. That being said, I don't require adoration without proof.

[Though it's all spoken in a teasing fashion. Can he brag? Certainly, but not without merit, and there's no call for it here.]

It is an art, certainly, but a gift as well. One must be able to sense the currents of magic to manipulate them, after all, and one born with the affinity is a mage whether they like it or not, so they may as well learn to like it.