[ He's visibly surprised, but he's not reacting as drastically as he would if she'd said something like that to him within the first few months of his arrival here. In this place, Cisco's found, there are a lot of people from a lot of different situations. Plenty of them were heroes, or demigods, or fighting desperate battles to save their families or worlds from destruction. Whatever logic was behind the portal's selection process, it seemed to prefer people who had already had their mettle tested by some pretty serious situations.
Still... demonic cults. Yikes. That's a new one. ]
There's a whole institute of magic here, you can wander in there and say hi to pretty much anybody.
[ That was what Cisco had done, how he'd first met Lucretia - just wandered right in and declared that he wanted to ask somebody some questions about magic. Looking back, that had been a pretty strange way of going about things, but he's glad he'd done it. ]
I met a guy at a party here from this whole family of demon-hunters, and he said he hasn't seen any in this place, so... that's good, anyway?
[ There was, however, definitely a recent Incident with a fairly nasty magic cult that some of his friend had participated in breaking up, but Alex doesn't need to know about that. ]
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[ He's visibly surprised, but he's not reacting as drastically as he would if she'd said something like that to him within the first few months of his arrival here. In this place, Cisco's found, there are a lot of people from a lot of different situations. Plenty of them were heroes, or demigods, or fighting desperate battles to save their families or worlds from destruction. Whatever logic was behind the portal's selection process, it seemed to prefer people who had already had their mettle tested by some pretty serious situations.
Still... demonic cults. Yikes. That's a new one. ]
There's a whole institute of magic here, you can wander in there and say hi to pretty much anybody.
[ That was what Cisco had done, how he'd first met Lucretia - just wandered right in and declared that he wanted to ask somebody some questions about magic. Looking back, that had been a pretty strange way of going about things, but he's glad he'd done it. ]
I met a guy at a party here from this whole family of demon-hunters, and he said he hasn't seen any in this place, so... that's good, anyway?
[ There was, however, definitely a recent Incident with a fairly nasty magic cult that some of his friend had participated in breaking up, but Alex doesn't need to know about that. ]