And if everyone's a self-taught expert in their field, it's too much to hope that there's been any kind of systematic investigation into what sorcery is truly capable of, isn't it? That's the reason I'm able to have so many devices, you know, someone figured out the deep rules far beyond the obvious ones by looking at ordinary, naturally occurring mortal things like fire and rocks and growing plants and thinking very carefully about what it all means. And I've just convinced myself to do science to magic. What a preposterously stupid idea, since it means I'll have to stay in fairyland where sorcery actually works.
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