"A lot more," Matthew says, with a quick flash of a rare, slightly conspiratorial grin. "Can't know what you can and can't tell me if I don't bother to ask in the first place, can I? Sorry, but you're just gonna have to live with the endless questions."
They listen closely, then, to the rest of Death's answer - there might be no deals, but since Death's opponent is apparently male, he can cross all the female Arcana off of the list. But it's the last part of Death's reply that Matthew comments on.
"Magic is always volatile in the wrong hands," he says. "It is the nature of power; there is no such thing as power that isn't dangerous. But we find this idea that it is a force for good, or for evil, a strange and simplistic viewpoint. Magic simply is. Calling it a force for good is as ridiculous as calling gravity a force for good. Gravity's great, right up until the point where someone pushes you off a cliff. Magic is the same. "
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They listen closely, then, to the rest of Death's answer - there might be no deals, but since Death's opponent is apparently male, he can cross all the female Arcana off of the list. But it's the last part of Death's reply that Matthew comments on.
"Magic is always volatile in the wrong hands," he says. "It is the nature of power; there is no such thing as power that isn't dangerous. But we find this idea that it is a force for good, or for evil, a strange and simplistic viewpoint. Magic simply is. Calling it a force for good is as ridiculous as calling gravity a force for good. Gravity's great, right up until the point where someone pushes you off a cliff. Magic is the same. "