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When Emily had them settled down again, she got Abby to let Janice know where she was. Watching the girl text, Emily shook her head in disbelief.

“There were toys like this, but they were just plastic and coloured lights.”

Abby shrugged. “Tech moves fast, it’s nothing if you grew up with it.”

Emily ran them through what had happened. The other four were full of questions and kept interrupting. Emily had to explain that the Folk didn’t perform magic constantly, that it seemed like they were magic, more or less.

“I wasn’t there to observe, really, so yes Michael, it is possible that there are people I didn’t see who do magic all the time like in your books.” Emily gestured searchingly. “The impression I got was that if you’re immortal you eventually get bored with doing things the easy way.”

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.