There are still...rules. Parameters. Even if they're not obvious.
[Even if they don't seem like rules, or anything that might make sense to a layman. If magic is inherent in nature, however, then nature has patterns. Viktor has found them before, and he can do it again. Perhaps it's chaos, but there must be some reason to it, underneath it all.
Or maybe that's just the physicist in him, looking for something that isn't there. What they can agree on is that the territories don't know what they're doing.]
They must have stolen it. The knowledge of it. [Which is what gives him hope, in the end--surely he can puzzle it out, if they managed to make it work.] I don't think the ritual as it exists lets them see exactly who they're bringing before they do it. They search for broad strokes. Desirable occupations, or personality traits, but not much more than that.
no subject
[Even if they don't seem like rules, or anything that might make sense to a layman. If magic is inherent in nature, however, then nature has patterns. Viktor has found them before, and he can do it again. Perhaps it's chaos, but there must be some reason to it, underneath it all.
Or maybe that's just the physicist in him, looking for something that isn't there. What they can agree on is that the territories don't know what they're doing.]
They must have stolen it. The knowledge of it. [Which is what gives him hope, in the end--surely he can puzzle it out, if they managed to make it work.] I don't think the ritual as it exists lets them see exactly who they're bringing before they do it. They search for broad strokes. Desirable occupations, or personality traits, but not much more than that.
[Suffice to say, he thinks he could improve it.]