A moment of pause follows, at the question, his good humor fading into something more thoughtful as he tries to do the math in his head. "Uh," he starts effectually, as time and technicalities prove more difficult to put together than he figured they would be. He shakes his head a little before he continues, "I don't know? Like fifteen, twenty years?"
Another pause, then, "I've been doing magic on stage since I was, like, twenty-five-ish, but I've been doing actual magic for way longer than that." Which he probably wasn't supposed to be, he wasn't even supposed to know that real magic was a thing, given that he wasn't in the Eye until his early twenties, but -- well, his father hadn't been able to resist cluing him in and teaching him a few tricks, and he'd been eager to learn. No one had said anything since he hadn't made a nuisance of himself with it, he figures.
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A moment of pause follows, at the question, his good humor fading into something more thoughtful as he tries to do the math in his head. "Uh," he starts effectually, as time and technicalities prove more difficult to put together than he figured they would be. He shakes his head a little before he continues, "I don't know? Like fifteen, twenty years?"
Another pause, then, "I've been doing magic on stage since I was, like, twenty-five-ish, but I've been doing actual magic for way longer than that." Which he probably wasn't supposed to be, he wasn't even supposed to know that real magic was a thing, given that he wasn't in the Eye until his early twenties, but -- well, his father hadn't been able to resist cluing him in and teaching him a few tricks, and he'd been eager to learn. No one had said anything since he hadn't made a nuisance of himself with it, he figures.