I'm pleased that I'm an integer. Imagine if I were 51/354ths. Or 31/1024ths. That would be distressing.
[ The mage knows not the complexities of the numerical system that this man's world uses to categorize magic-users, but he does know that he would much rather be an integer than a messy fraction. Real number or not. Integers are more satisfying in some way that Linhardt feels intuitively. He doubts he could explain his preferences any more than he could articulate why he prefers green to orange.]
6 is a very pleasing number, though I think it would also involve a great deal of pressure. I hope that I am a quieter number. Something such as 52. I would like to be even, I think. Even numbers have a certain symmetry to them that is pleasing.
[Because of course, even in this, Linhardt has preferences. Regardless of the system and its meanings, Linhardt has his own preferences and desires and will not quiet them.]
I have some virtues.
[False humility is only the mirror of ego, and Linhardt has time for neither.]
Hopefully, it does not come with a corresponding responsibility.
[Because that is usually the catch when it comes to systems of power.]
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[ The mage knows not the complexities of the numerical system that this man's world uses to categorize magic-users, but he does know that he would much rather be an integer than a messy fraction. Real number or not. Integers are more satisfying in some way that Linhardt feels intuitively. He doubts he could explain his preferences any more than he could articulate why he prefers green to orange.]
6 is a very pleasing number, though I think it would also involve a great deal of pressure. I hope that I am a quieter number. Something such as 52. I would like to be even, I think. Even numbers have a certain symmetry to them that is pleasing.
[Because of course, even in this, Linhardt has preferences. Regardless of the system and its meanings, Linhardt has his own preferences and desires and will not quiet them.]
I have some virtues.
[False humility is only the mirror of ego, and Linhardt has time for neither.]
Hopefully, it does not come with a corresponding responsibility.
[Because that is usually the catch when it comes to systems of power.]