"Dude, it's still a wand," Marco said, snorting. "At least if you a magic staff or something you'd look somewhat more impressive."
Still, he eyed it carefully, taking note of what it looked like. He didn't know a thing about magic, but he was betting it could be pretty dangerous. And it did occur to him that having a weapon which didn't look at all threatening or dangerous was pretty darn useful.
"So you guys don't want to tell anyone about magic because then they'd want you to do magic for them," he said, his voice deceptively neutral. The situation reminded him eerily of Andalites, and Seerow's Kindness; helping went bad once, so they decided they never would again. Except the Andalites took not giving out technology to other species further than just that. They were convinced that they were better, that they couldn't ever listen to anyone else even when those people were actually on their side. "That, and they'd persecute you. Or at least, people they thought were you, since it sounds like you guys were more than capable of defending yourself against people who couldn't do things like turn you into frogs."
He moved again, taking the bishop. Harry had made the wrong move though - he should have sacrificed the queen instead, because in loosing the bishop he'd opened up the way for Marco to start attacking his King.
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Still, he eyed it carefully, taking note of what it looked like. He didn't know a thing about magic, but he was betting it could be pretty dangerous. And it did occur to him that having a weapon which didn't look at all threatening or dangerous was pretty darn useful.
"So you guys don't want to tell anyone about magic because then they'd want you to do magic for them," he said, his voice deceptively neutral. The situation reminded him eerily of Andalites, and Seerow's Kindness; helping went bad once, so they decided they never would again. Except the Andalites took not giving out technology to other species further than just that. They were convinced that they were better, that they couldn't ever listen to anyone else even when those people were actually on their side. "That, and they'd persecute you. Or at least, people they thought were you, since it sounds like you guys were more than capable of defending yourself against people who couldn't do things like turn you into frogs."
He moved again, taking the bishop. Harry had made the wrong move though - he should have sacrificed the queen instead, because in loosing the bishop he'd opened up the way for Marco to start attacking his King.