Elisa closed her eyes, shook her head, and smiled a little. ”Now you’re just having fun with me.” She accused.

Dominique shook her head. ”Afraid not.” She told her simply. Of course there was quite a story to be told about how exactly she knew Titania, but that wasn’t the sort of thing she was going to get into just now either.

”Okay then.” Elisa replied, taking a sip of water. ”So, you were going to tell me about magic?” She asked.

”I was, wasn’t I?” Dominique observed, chiding herself for having gotten a little lost in Elisa’s eyes somehow. It was actually a little off-putting, a little disconcerting, the effect this human was having on her. ”My first exposure to it came from the humans at Wyvern. There were two sorcerers there over the years. The elder, I convinced to teach me some of what he knew. I thought, if the humans could do this, my clan was vulnerable to them if one of us could not.” She admitted.

”Makes sense.” Elisa ventured.

”My teacher then, he told me that magic was like… sunlight dancing on a lake, making sparks, or what look like sparks. Water is the only thing in the world that can do that… until a human makes a mirror. Or, I suppose, a more modern analogy would be lightning and electricity, wouldn’t it?” She told.

”So… it’s a force of nature, like fire or electricity then?” Elisa asked.

”Only less of an obvious one, yes, that was his explanation. That one need only find the means to harness or direct it, to make it yours.” Dominique confirmed. ”Oberon’s children, on the other hand, seem to think it’s… what makes us alive. Where the soul comes from, what makes everything.”

”What do you think?” Elisa asked.

”…I think that it is like life in one way at least, that it’s a mystery who laughs at anyone foolish enough to try to guess at what its nature is.” She sat back and closed her eyes a moment. Really, she doubted if even Oberon himself could do more than guess on the subject, if he were compelled to real honesty in the matter. Not that she’d ever met the man for herself of course, nor did she particularly ever wish to.