[ Mages controlling the Fade's energy is a little alarming in the context of them hypothetically being made of Fade energy. The thought doesn't get particularly far — they'd have noticed something as obvious as mages controlling or affecting Rifters by now, surely — but even if it had legs, Tony's follow-up trips it up cleanly.
Fitz gives him an inexplicably sharp look, moody and a bit guilty. It's his fault for floating the theory, but it's difficult not to feel punchy about the concept of more duplicates and more fallout. ]
No. We just— we get back home, and we figure out the rest later. There's no point having an existential crisis over one theory.
[ Says the guy who has steadfastly refused to engage directly with the "our entire world is a shitty mage dream" theory since his arrival. Anyway, now it's his turn to hard pivot into safer territory: ] How much of their tech's analogous to ours?
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Fitz gives him an inexplicably sharp look, moody and a bit guilty. It's his fault for floating the theory, but it's difficult not to feel punchy about the concept of more duplicates and more fallout. ]
No. We just— we get back home, and we figure out the rest later. There's no point having an existential crisis over one theory.
[ Says the guy who has steadfastly refused to engage directly with the "our entire world is a shitty mage dream" theory since his arrival. Anyway, now it's his turn to hard pivot into safer territory: ] How much of their tech's analogous to ours?