"Sentient cryptids aren't usually the nomadic type, no. I do know of some ghosts who manage to get around," Alex considered. "And as much as these charms and traps would be just about the closest thing to heresy for a route witch, whoever is setting them has learned some of their magic. Which explains the distance." The more well-travelled something is, the more hands it's passed through, the more power it has for the route witches.
Alex shuts up to let John do his divining thing. His family more or less views magic as a branch of physics humanity hasn't quite gotten the hang of. His grandfather, Thomas, had been a practitioner and ended up trapped in another dimension. So, Alex watching someone else poking about with the so-called "dark arts" was a bit akin to sitting by while someone with a decade or so more experience in the field fiddled with the controls of a particle accelerator.
All that considered, he seemed pretty cool about it, not doing much more than fixing his glasses and watching in a way that suggested his fingers were itching to start taking notes as if John were a particularly interesting field discovery. You can take the nerd out of academia, etc etc.
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Alex shuts up to let John do his divining thing. His family more or less views magic as a branch of physics humanity hasn't quite gotten the hang of. His grandfather, Thomas, had been a practitioner and ended up trapped in another dimension. So, Alex watching someone else poking about with the so-called "dark arts" was a bit akin to sitting by while someone with a decade or so more experience in the field fiddled with the controls of a particle accelerator.
All that considered, he seemed pretty cool about it, not doing much more than fixing his glasses and watching in a way that suggested his fingers were itching to start taking notes as if John were a particularly interesting field discovery. You can take the nerd out of academia, etc etc.