Dominic leaned back, considering all he had said, then replied to each part on its own.
"Not all of your family has powers that could be. Yours, I could teach. There are weather mages who could help your sister Pepá. Your other sister is more difficult. There are a great many healers out there who can teach her at least some, but the way in which she heals is one I've not seen before. My brother Gregory, for example, is a healer - among other things - but he would have little to offer her because the way in which their magic is channeled differs greatly. Honestly, would I be able to meet her and were she amenable, there are number of experiments I would like to perform." a small thin smile. "None that would hurt her or anyone else. But for example, my brother could not heal my leg or my missing teeth, I would like to see if she could. Where as my brother healed a chronic condition of mine that I'd as soon have not had healed, but your sister's daughter still requires glasses. It is interesting on an academic level as well as a practical one. I could go case by case for the rest, but the one that I think fascinates me most is Luisa, because I was ready to dismiss her gift when I first saw it as being as common as Isabella's, until I watched more closely. The fact that she had that gift but could lose it... That I plan to look into more."
He really wished he still smoked. His pipe gave him something to do with his hands, a physical anchor.
"The point of all of that, and I appologize for the rambling, is that while I would need to study more to see how your gifts work in the particular, there are only so many forms magic can take across all the worlds. It may well be that there is no one on your world who could teach you. But teaching oracular gifts is my current profession, and on mine I am far from the only Seer. There are countless methods for seeing, and having studied as many as I have, I am in a position to help. There are those in your family I could send to people from my world if they wanted help or to further their understanding of their powers. even if I could not help them directly. And there are some in your family I would have to seek outside my own world, should they ask me for teaching."
"Thankfully for us both, some power has seen fit to place you and I together."
A deep breath, which again would have been more rewarding with pipe smoke, and he leaned forward to continue.
"The vision changing is exactly why I know that I can help you learn, if you wish to, Bruno," he said, leaning forward, arms on his knees. "Because that means that your power started to grow. To change. I know how to help you work through that. But let me make one thing perfectly clear," he said, sitting upright, "Even had you shared that vision, sharing it would not have meant she was hurt because of you. If you hit her over the head with the manifestation of it, that would have been your fault. But had others chosen to see only the worst in it and had they hurt her because of it, that would have been the fault of those who hurt her. Not your fault."
"This is important," he added, seriously. "As a Seer, you will learn to see many possible fates and outcomes. Most of the time, one path or another will lead to someone getting hurt. If you convince yourself or let yourself believe that it is your fault then you will be paralyzed forever. Further along in your studies you may be at the point where you are choosing paths, not just seeing them. But one of the things I teach with that branch of the skill, is the ethics that goes with it. Which does not mean that I feel that you are unethical, it is part of the curriculum for all oracular studies students where I teach and not a part that I would even consider changing." Especially not after Celesto.
"There are also lessons in how to share what you have seen, and how to see in different ways. By the time I'm done with you," he added with a wry smile, "you won't need wide open spaces or sand to see a vision. To be honest... I don't even need this," he nodded to the crystal ball. "It helps, but is not needed."
He leaned back a bit again. "What people presume based on what you tell them is, unfortunately, not under your control. You can ease things some, when you learn how to communicate more efficiently. Explaining a vision, especially a complex one, is nothing like having a conversation - no matter how similar it might seem. But ultimately how they choose to take what you tell them and what they do with it... that is on them. Not on you. You would no more be to blame if they had done something to hurt Mirabel based on what you told them than I was to blame for the customer who decided to beat me to a bloody pulp when he asked me to see who would win his duel and it was not him." The words came more easily now than they would have just a short time ago. He would never like Siggy, but he was making his peace with his own emotions.
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"Not all of your family has powers that could be. Yours, I could teach. There are weather mages who could help your sister Pepá. Your other sister is more difficult. There are a great many healers out there who can teach her at least some, but the way in which she heals is one I've not seen before. My brother Gregory, for example, is a healer - among other things - but he would have little to offer her because the way in which their magic is channeled differs greatly. Honestly, would I be able to meet her and were she amenable, there are number of experiments I would like to perform." a small thin smile. "None that would hurt her or anyone else. But for example, my brother could not heal my leg or my missing teeth, I would like to see if she could. Where as my brother healed a chronic condition of mine that I'd as soon have not had healed, but your sister's daughter still requires glasses. It is interesting on an academic level as well as a practical one. I could go case by case for the rest, but the one that I think fascinates me most is Luisa, because I was ready to dismiss her gift when I first saw it as being as common as Isabella's, until I watched more closely. The fact that she had that gift but could lose it... That I plan to look into more."
He really wished he still smoked. His pipe gave him something to do with his hands, a physical anchor.
"The point of all of that, and I appologize for the rambling, is that while I would need to study more to see how your gifts work in the particular, there are only so many forms magic can take across all the worlds. It may well be that there is no one on your world who could teach you. But teaching oracular gifts is my current profession, and on mine I am far from the only Seer. There are countless methods for seeing, and having studied as many as I have, I am in a position to help. There are those in your family I could send to people from my world if they wanted help or to further their understanding of their powers. even if I could not help them directly. And there are some in your family I would have to seek outside my own world, should they ask me for teaching."
"Thankfully for us both, some power has seen fit to place you and I together."
A deep breath, which again would have been more rewarding with pipe smoke, and he leaned forward to continue.
"The vision changing is exactly why I know that I can help you learn, if you wish to, Bruno," he said, leaning forward, arms on his knees. "Because that means that your power started to grow. To change. I know how to help you work through that. But let me make one thing perfectly clear," he said, sitting upright, "Even had you shared that vision, sharing it would not have meant she was hurt because of you. If you hit her over the head with the manifestation of it, that would have been your fault. But had others chosen to see only the worst in it and had they hurt her because of it, that would have been the fault of those who hurt her. Not your fault."
"This is important," he added, seriously. "As a Seer, you will learn to see many possible fates and outcomes. Most of the time, one path or another will lead to someone getting hurt. If you convince yourself or let yourself believe that it is your fault then you will be paralyzed forever. Further along in your studies you may be at the point where you are choosing paths, not just seeing them. But one of the things I teach with that branch of the skill, is the ethics that goes with it. Which does not mean that I feel that you are unethical, it is part of the curriculum for all oracular studies students where I teach and not a part that I would even consider changing." Especially not after Celesto.
"There are also lessons in how to share what you have seen, and how to see in different ways. By the time I'm done with you," he added with a wry smile, "you won't need wide open spaces or sand to see a vision. To be honest... I don't even need this," he nodded to the crystal ball. "It helps, but is not needed."
He leaned back a bit again. "What people presume based on what you tell them is, unfortunately, not under your control. You can ease things some, when you learn how to communicate more efficiently. Explaining a vision, especially a complex one, is nothing like having a conversation - no matter how similar it might seem. But ultimately how they choose to take what you tell them and what they do with it... that is on them. Not on you. You would no more be to blame if they had done something to hurt Mirabel based on what you told them than I was to blame for the customer who decided to beat me to a bloody pulp when he asked me to see who would win his duel and it was not him." The words came more easily now than they would have just a short time ago. He would never like Siggy, but he was making his peace with his own emotions.