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"Noisy, huh? Mine sounds more comforting than anything. Can't really make it out. Its basically just mumbling, but somehow feels soothing." She shrugged. She had given up trying to make sense of it. Sometimes she hears her name being quietly said, which eventually made her not turn her head whenever someone calls her, unless it was loud enough for her to say that it wasn't all in her head. "Australia? I don't really know that place, sorry. Haven't looked into places that aren't on the island."
 
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Adelaida let a little of her surprise show on her face. "So you're from here? A true-blue local? Most of the people I've met on this island are from the outside, like myself. Can't tell if born and bred locals are a rarity or it's just variance."

Interestingly enough, this person seemed to be same but different. The flame called to both of them, and yet only for one of them was it aggressive, was it pushy. "Better than the having it constantly yelling 'burn that thing' deal I got going on. It took a bit of time to get used to shutting it up."
 
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"No, I'm not a local either. I'm from a different dimension. Or reality, whatever makes sense. After the first few worlds I jumped to, I've given up wanting to learn anything not immediately relevant." And she left out the part where most of the technology in this island was primitive in her standards. Even their androids were either anomalies or from aliens. The supernatural things here though was something she had experiences with. Only strange thing about it was how centralized it was. From what she learned, outside the island, people were living without knowing magic existed.
 
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"Makes sense to me. As long as what you're comfortable with works, why bother learning the other things, right? Used to be like that, until I lost what I worked with, but that's coming back soon," Adelaida said with a smile. Her schemes were already in place after all, and her loss wasn't going to be so permanent.

"So what do you, someone who lives on science, make of this island?"
 
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Felicity knew not to pry too deeply, even though she did have something to change her looks. She just skipped to answering her question. "First thing that stuck out was how primitive everything is here, compared to where I'm from. The AI that roam around, blending in with the population are either alien, or a technological anomaly that, apparently, isn't normal outside the island. I can't say much of the magical aspects because that topic gets away from me. As for the people, I'm used to seeing a hodgepodge of races, so its familiar at least. And the air... it feels like I'm in Deion."
 
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"I get that. Most people here work with magic, and not my kind of magic which is basically magical coding. It bothers me a bit because it seems - at least for the people I've met - that everyone's just working with what they're born with and not really putting in the work."

Adelaida didn't have that good of an opinion for those kinds of people. They were fine, but she still held higher regard for those whose skills came from actual hard work, and especially those with wits about themselves. So here she was, some clear respect in her voice, dealing with someone who ticked the right boxes. "Big ups to you for sticking with science in this world where things refuse to follow reason."
 
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"As someone I knew put it, magic is just another science. He might have had something there since he managed to stop magic from working in his test chambers, using only machines and whatever chemicals his partner made. But I couldn't wrap my head around it. I looked at his schematics, and I know I can put it together, but how it works? Beats me." She gave a light shrug. "I'm sure it makes sense somehow, but I prefer to work with tangible things." She held up her gauntlet, brushing her fingers over the mechanisms. "Each cog, piston and spring has a noticeable impact on the system. With magic? Can't even see what's happening without special gear, and even then it needs a magical component." She let out a sigh of frustration.
 
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"That's true for most magics, and even for mine to some extent. While it breaks down into understandable fragments, you do still have to use something that's not externally observable."

The problem inherent with magic as Adelaida saw it was that magical power was inherently unscientific and difficult to determine. While her system of magic did reduce that with its rigor, it was a fundamental flaw in magic, especially here on this island where every system was active at once.

"It's even weirder here, because... well, each world has its own rules on magic, whether it exists or not. But here, all the rules are active at once... good thing my system's flexible. There's also science so advanced that it's basically magic too."
 
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