"You've always been a man of vision," Pyotr sadly agrees. "It's one of the things I've always liked about you."
It bothers him far more to think of Dankovsky moldering, his intellect going to waste, than it does to think of himself in such a state. Pyotr's never seen himself as an especially intellectual man, certainly not like Daniil or his brother. His prowess lay in a deeper realm, the realm of the mystical. For a while he almost fancied himself a sort of oracle, interpreting the will of a higher being...but that was before he understood the true depth and breadth of his failure. Now he sees that it would have been better if he'd never tried in the first place.
But Daniil's work, his mind...it isn't like that. Something precious would be lost if he gave up his struggle.
"You could always try becoming a magician yourself," he suggests whimsically. "The feats people can perform here are miraculous to us, but there must be some kind of underlying system to it, a scaffold of rationality. Otherwise everyone would be able to do such things -- but instead there are specialists and experts, haven't you noticed? Magic is something that has to be studied and trained for, like mathematics."
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It bothers him far more to think of Dankovsky moldering, his intellect going to waste, than it does to think of himself in such a state. Pyotr's never seen himself as an especially intellectual man, certainly not like Daniil or his brother. His prowess lay in a deeper realm, the realm of the mystical. For a while he almost fancied himself a sort of oracle, interpreting the will of a higher being...but that was before he understood the true depth and breadth of his failure. Now he sees that it would have been better if he'd never tried in the first place.
But Daniil's work, his mind...it isn't like that. Something precious would be lost if he gave up his struggle.
"You could always try becoming a magician yourself," he suggests whimsically. "The feats people can perform here are miraculous to us, but there must be some kind of underlying system to it, a scaffold of rationality. Otherwise everyone would be able to do such things -- but instead there are specialists and experts, haven't you noticed? Magic is something that has to be studied and trained for, like mathematics."