He doesn’t rise to the bluster, because Stephen doesn’t have a reason to think it’s wrong; there were plenty of non-powered individuals who made their mark in his world, for better or worse.
Instead, he focuses on the last bit. ]
Magic isn’t my only leverage. [He looks skeptical at the very idea that it would be his only useful trait. Inversely, a lack of magic doesn’t mean that someone’s without value in ADI’s eyes — like they’re just fodder to be fed to all supernatural inconveniences.] And I think you’re purposefully underselling yourself if you think you don’t have any, either, just because you can’t pull a rabbit out of your hat.
[Figuratively speaking.]
They’re using us, so we all inherently have value. You think they’d send us out to investigate if we didn’t?
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He doesn’t rise to the bluster, because Stephen doesn’t have a reason to think it’s wrong; there were plenty of non-powered individuals who made their mark in his world, for better or worse.
Instead, he focuses on the last bit. ]
Magic isn’t my only leverage. [He looks skeptical at the very idea that it would be his only useful trait. Inversely, a lack of magic doesn’t mean that someone’s without value in ADI’s eyes — like they’re just fodder to be fed to all supernatural inconveniences.] And I think you’re purposefully underselling yourself if you think you don’t have any, either, just because you can’t pull a rabbit out of your hat.
[Figuratively speaking.]
They’re using us, so we all inherently have value. You think they’d send us out to investigate if we didn’t?