So, he was thanking her for being honest and simultaneously revealing a little more than he was saying. The man didn’t seem to trust easily, and it seemed that was because his trust had been abused. Emily was surprised at the way he laid it all out, but at the conclusion, she smiled, softer but more openly than before. It was a consolation for him to find something simple and normal—fortunately, Emily could be quite good at normal.
“Well, it looked to me like you attached yourself to a group that takes it all very seriously,” she said, not unkindly. She smiled to show she wasn’t being accusatory, but acknowledging that Malcolm and the Byte Bash were not the norm. “It’s usually like this though, you know? Ordinary. There’s wonder, but in the day to day, it’s just… work and life, but with magic.”
After the initial reveal, that’s what it seemed to come down to. Magic existed, but life went on. For Emily, it wasn’t a paradigm shift so much as a broadened scope of reality.
“Well, it looked to me like you attached yourself to a group that takes it all very seriously,” she said, not unkindly. She smiled to show she wasn’t being accusatory, but acknowledging that Malcolm and the Byte Bash were not the norm. “It’s usually like this though, you know? Ordinary. There’s wonder, but in the day to day, it’s just… work and life, but with magic.”
After the initial reveal, that’s what it seemed to come down to. Magic existed, but life went on. For Emily, it wasn’t a paradigm shift so much as a broadened scope of reality.