Harald mirrors the gesture with his own glass before taking a swig. You can say that again.
"So I see! Perhaps there's just something about pilots..." Specifically pilots who find the military to be useless in the face of the sorts of threats Harald's had to deal with, but he understands that such a subject might be sore for some folks, so he doesn't mention anything about that. "Granted, I was working with the gods as opposed to against them, but nonetheless!"
There's a moment of pause as Harald finds himself without something to say. Briefly, his gaze fixes upon another pair of students preparing to duke it out across the room. "Hah... I couldn't imagine raw magic such as this existing in my world. We settle most of our conflicts with card games."
He sits up. "There's... more to it than that, of course, for these cards possess links to other worlds and planes of existence that most people will never bear witness to. But most of the time no one just pulls out a gun to shoot someone who's threatening to end the world, even though we have those sorts of weapons at our disposal. That's just... how my world works. We have subtle levels of magic and gods and weapons of mass destruction, and yet we settle everything with card games."
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"So I see! Perhaps there's just something about pilots..." Specifically pilots who find the military to be useless in the face of the sorts of threats Harald's had to deal with, but he understands that such a subject might be sore for some folks, so he doesn't mention anything about that. "Granted, I was working with the gods as opposed to against them, but nonetheless!"
There's a moment of pause as Harald finds himself without something to say. Briefly, his gaze fixes upon another pair of students preparing to duke it out across the room. "Hah... I couldn't imagine raw magic such as this existing in my world. We settle most of our conflicts with card games."
He sits up. "There's... more to it than that, of course, for these cards possess links to other worlds and planes of existence that most people will never bear witness to. But most of the time no one just pulls out a gun to shoot someone who's threatening to end the world, even though we have those sorts of weapons at our disposal. That's just... how my world works. We have subtle levels of magic and gods and weapons of mass destruction, and yet we settle everything with card games."