[Singular chants and greater internal focus, got it.]
Probably better that way, anyway. I mean... there were some spells that I could pull off without chanting, but most of the time I need that part of it. If I could learn to do magic without hearing the words, I'd get better at focusing and... eliminate a weakness, too.
[He doesn't have to say it- they both know. Things might have been very different if those machines of the warden's hadn't taken his hearing away. And things would have been infinitely different if he hadn't needed to hear his voice in the first place.
...Granted, he might have killed someone to get them out, but if his spells had worked it wouldn't have gone that far, either.
He shivers against Teddy before he can stop himself, his grip tightening on the book. Focus. They're trying to move beyond the past here, trying to do this better from now on. Dwelling on his failings aren't going to help anyone. He coughs, biting his lip, and continues hastily instead of waiting for a response.]
"We wonder at the achievements of the great men in all walks of life, and we are apt to excuse ourselves by the sad remark that these people seem to 'have it in them' greater than we are doing. Nonsense, we all have it in us to do things a hundred times greater than we are doing. The trouble is not in the lack of power and mental material, but in the Desire and Interest, and Incentive to arouse into activity those wonderful storehouses of dynamic power within our disposal."
[...Sort of feels like an inspirational cat poster would be less long-winded and equally effective, but the familiarity of the material is actually soothing.]
[Action, May 6th]
Probably better that way, anyway. I mean... there were some spells that I could pull off without chanting, but most of the time I need that part of it. If I could learn to do magic without hearing the words, I'd get better at focusing and... eliminate a weakness, too.
[He doesn't have to say it- they both know. Things might have been very different if those machines of the warden's hadn't taken his hearing away. And things would have been infinitely different if he hadn't needed to hear his voice in the first place.
...Granted, he might have killed someone to get them out, but if his spells had worked it wouldn't have gone that far, either.
He shivers against Teddy before he can stop himself, his grip tightening on the book. Focus. They're trying to move beyond the past here, trying to do this better from now on. Dwelling on his failings aren't going to help anyone. He coughs, biting his lip, and continues hastily instead of waiting for a response.]
"We wonder at the achievements of the great men in all walks of life, and we are apt to excuse ourselves by the sad remark that these people seem to 'have it in them' greater than we are doing. Nonsense, we all have it in us to do things a hundred times greater than we are doing. The trouble is not in the lack of power and mental material, but in the Desire and Interest, and Incentive to arouse into activity those wonderful storehouses of dynamic power within our disposal."
[...Sort of feels like an inspirational cat poster would be less long-winded and equally effective, but the familiarity of the material is actually soothing.]