[closed] book review

[anti_nonsense]

Who: Two gigantic magic nerds (Rita and Strange)
When: Near the end of the Summerlands visit
Where: Strange's trailer
What: Rita gives Strange's book back, with some critiques
Warnings: strong opinions

As promised, Rita read both Strange's book and the other one he lent her, A Child's History of the Raven King, in a timely manner. She even went back and reread several sections and took notes for herself to retain after returning them, which is what she's come to do now.

With the two books tucked under her arm, she arrives at the door to his trailer and knocks. She didn't bother arranging this meeting, but she did check the worker schedules to make sure he wasn't supposed to be on the job at this time. Assuming he didn't go out for some other reason, she figures there's a good chance he's here.

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[kingsroads]

"That's only assuming the rest of your world is as reckless as I am," Strange teases in return. While he doesn't think he's reckless (he makes nothing but perfectly sensible decisions, thank you very much), so many different people have called him reckless that there's probably a slight bit of truth to the matter.

Still, the rain spell. Walking over to the table, Strange flips a few pieces of paper over until he finds one that doesn't have anything important written on it. A moment later, he takes a pencil from his pocket. Turning the paper over, Strange starts to scribble the incantation on the back, trying to keep everything legible. Because obviously he's going to write the incantation down now, why wouldn't he? The incantation is more of asking the rain itself to start, drawing upon alliances already put in place between the magician and that of nature...with a good chunk of 1800s formality thrown in.

"Here," he says, with a grin as he finishes writing down the incantation and hands it over to Rita. "I honestly hope it works."