"I've already given you more than enough hints to figure it out on your own. I'm not going to do your homework for you," Mortimer answers humorlessly. "I've got my own problems to worry about."
And he does take a long moment throughout Matthew's... 'speech' to continue adjustments on the Jaunt itself. A switch flipped here, an input entered there, and so on.
"In your universe, perhaps. But not in this one. This world needs its magic. That is all I can say."
"No. No more questions." But then they pause, and eye the fingerless glove that covers his Mark warily, and adds; "...Wait, what are you planning to do to our Mark?"
So maybe there was technically one more question, after all.
"Oh," Matthew says, feeling kind of awkward now. "I'll, um, get going then."
At least Matthew doesn't need to ask Death to send him back; it takes drawing on deeper wells of liminal power to do it, but they open up a portal back themselves, and step through.
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And he does take a long moment throughout Matthew's... 'speech' to continue adjustments on the Jaunt itself. A switch flipped here, an input entered there, and so on.
"In your universe, perhaps. But not in this one. This world needs its magic. That is all I can say."
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So maybe there was technically one more question, after all.
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At least Matthew doesn't need to ask Death to send him back; it takes drawing on deeper wells of liminal power to do it, but they open up a portal back themselves, and step through.