The excitement in his voice, in his facial expressions, when he finds common ground for 'science' makes Amelia smile. For a moment, she sees someone else excitedly telling her about his latest invention while they take a break from their accounting studies. A young man with unruly dark brown hair and the most mischievous of grins looks out at her. But the moment fades quickly, as does her smile. "It seems my world has much to learn about 'science,' then."
The mention of demons earns a small shudder. "There are monsters in my world - trolls and kobolds and a few other things like that - but they live far from the more populated towns and cities. I have no idea what ghosts are and there are no sea monsters in our world, but..." She stops, her gaze falling to her hands, which she folds neatly in her lap. "I never thought magic could possibly be real until I met the... thing I fought about a year ago. A great monster, unlike any I'd ever heard described before, that erupted from a crystal covered in strange runes. A man, whose life I ended for the crimes he committed against me and mine, tied a fuse around the crystal and lit it. The monster was..."
There's another long pause before she continues, her eyes still focused on her hands. "It stood nearly 7 feet tall. Its face looked like the helmet of an armored warrior, but it was made entirely of bone and there were holes where the eyes should have been. It had the body of a strong, fit soldier, but it was covered with bone-like armor and some kind of... red, molten ooze poured out from any wounds we inflicted. And when my friends and I killed it, it erupted in a spray of more of that same ooze." She shudders, quickly wrapping her arms around herself. "If there were any word to describe such an abomination, it would be demon."
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The mention of demons earns a small shudder. "There are monsters in my world - trolls and kobolds and a few other things like that - but they live far from the more populated towns and cities. I have no idea what ghosts are and there are no sea monsters in our world, but..." She stops, her gaze falling to her hands, which she folds neatly in her lap. "I never thought magic could possibly be real until I met the... thing I fought about a year ago. A great monster, unlike any I'd ever heard described before, that erupted from a crystal covered in strange runes. A man, whose life I ended for the crimes he committed against me and mine, tied a fuse around the crystal and lit it. The monster was..."
There's another long pause before she continues, her eyes still focused on her hands. "It stood nearly 7 feet tall. Its face looked like the helmet of an armored warrior, but it was made entirely of bone and there were holes where the eyes should have been. It had the body of a strong, fit soldier, but it was covered with bone-like armor and some kind of... red, molten ooze poured out from any wounds we inflicted. And when my friends and I killed it, it erupted in a spray of more of that same ooze." She shudders, quickly wrapping her arms around herself. "If there were any word to describe such an abomination, it would be demon."