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And since, despite the world's admitted tendency towards situations best left in the more dramatic varieties of literature, it wasn't literally a stereotypical gothic novel, Kanimir didn't expect anything in particular to happen. If nothing else, there were far more storms that happened to happen at night than there were potentially literature-worthy shenanigans. So it's completely reasonable for him to be curled up in his grand library, enjoying a book on magical theory.
asteptotheright
"Fairies can still be killed by malice or accident, but are often referred to as immortal because of their indefinite lifespans."
the-silence-between
"I have the phoenix thing too now," she says. "If I had a lot of phoenixes and a lot of fairies and a lot of unicorns in front of me... and maybe some of those moths or those snakes... then I could put together a way to make lots of people really immortal just by touching them."
the-silence-between
"Sometimes if I mess up the reflection I can use a bit of another reflection of the same kind of thing and not have to go away and start over. If I only had one of each I would have to go away and start over a lot."
the-silence-between
"I don't think so... the quartz crystals have the magic of remembering what some other magic looked like. It's not the same as having the magic itself."
the-silence-between
"I don't know how to do a thing that catches reflections the way quartz crystals catch what magic looks like. There might not be a thing like that."
asteptotheright
"I suppose it's not possible to give yourself the ability using the reflections of the crystals."
asteptotheright
"I may come up with similar suggestions in the future since I'm imperfectly comprehensive of how your magic works."
asteptotheright
"Is the method you use for manipulating reflections similar to holding onto them? If for some reason you were teleported away while working with a reflection, could you potentially keep ahold of it or would you automatically lose it?"
the-silence-between
"It's a lot like holding them... I'm not sure, but I think I might keep the part I was holding right then. Not the rest though."
asteptotheright
Kanimir nods and takes a small notebook out and notes this down. "Unicorn herds are common, and I imagine those snakes are less so but most likely they wouldn't be difficult to find or contain once you know about them and bring magic to bear on the problem, and I seriously doubt anyone would object to their sudden absence, and there are fairy cities--but trying to get large numbers of phoenixes in one place sounds...difficult."