[Considering where they are and what they're doing, she really shouldn't be startled by sudden displays of magic — and yet she is, if only because the magic of this world was nothing like what existed back home. No less powerful, perhaps even more dangerous, but different. Because there's no pain when it touches her now, no reason to feel afraid or ashamed.
She looks at her glowing hand with perfect wonder, only the performer's instruction keeping it held aloft rather than brought close to her own face and marveled over. Slowly, almost reflexively, Lys turns her closed fist this way and that, showing the crowd how her grip on the coin is still tight.]
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[Considering where they are and what they're doing, she really shouldn't be startled by sudden displays of magic — and yet she is, if only because the magic of this world was nothing like what existed back home. No less powerful, perhaps even more dangerous, but different. Because there's no pain when it touches her now, no reason to feel afraid or ashamed.
She looks at her glowing hand with perfect wonder, only the performer's instruction keeping it held aloft rather than brought close to her own face and marveled over. Slowly, almost reflexively, Lys turns her closed fist this way and that, showing the crowd how her grip on the coin is still tight.]