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Max listened politely as Eris recounted the situation, taking Eris' stripping as an excuse to do the same - if way less racy. He dropped his disassembled vambraces on the floor unceremoniously and threw the hoodie he'd been wearing down on top of them shortly after. In retrospect, it probably looked like he wasn't listening at all, and the leech looked a bit distraught at that. Part of him believed Eris was blatantly misinterpreting everything he saw, but even so the situation sounded outside the norm of what he and Aaron had apparently seen during that test.

[color=8585ad]"Alright, let's dissect this."[/color] Max raised a finger as he spoke to accentuate his point. [color=8585ad]"Are you sure it was [i]magic[/i]-magic? Your clone did some magical shit too - the area we were standing in was basically an extension of his consciousness. According to Aaron, mine probably was too, he just didn't bother using the environment."[/color] Probably some baggage in there about an internal versus external locus of control and lack of environmental help, but this was Eris' psychoanalysis and not his. 

[color=8585ad]"Anyway, Clone-Eris had full control over it, I think. Like, we were on a stage; you were ordering extras around left and right, and they could look like whoever you wanted them to. That mage you saw him supposedly using magic on could've just been part of his 'stage'."[/color] That would explain the abilities, anyway; the tirade about history still didn't make sense. That didn't sound like a way of getting Eris to crack. Or... maybe it was, considering the vampire was currently having a meltdown in the middle of his dorm. The others seemed to focus on personal attacks though, but Eris didn't mention any of those. 

[color=8585ad]"The weird part is, it sounds like Varis only wanted to talk about [i]him[/i], where the other clones seemed intent on avoiding that so they could talk about us. Which defeats the purpose of the test if he was just going to wax poetic about a paragraph he read in a history book and then hand over the coin. Or the weird bruise, for that matter. You think it was a clue for another optional test we just didn't bother with?"[/color] 

Still, why leave it there after the test? Were they overthinking this and it would just heal on its own? Ryner was laughing at them somewhere, he could tell.

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