[The answer to so many thing in this world has simply been 'magic.' While there's surely an internal rhyme and reason to Craft, Horatio hasn't begun to get his head around it. There's so much more hope for the mechanical--for the idea of mechanics applied beyond what he's accustomed to in something nonetheless explicable.
That said, thus far, this "electricity" business sounds a bit like a code word for "slightly different magic."
His first impulse is to look for a physical connection. His fingers twitch over the devices fretfully, trying to imagine what "the other end" might be--and how in the world the sound was traveling from "out there" to here as seamlessly as if from the other end of a room.]
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That said, thus far, this "electricity" business sounds a bit like a code word for "slightly different magic."
His first impulse is to look for a physical connection. His fingers twitch over the devices fretfully, trying to imagine what "the other end" might be--and how in the world the sound was traveling from "out there" to here as seamlessly as if from the other end of a room.]
Someone quite close by?