How long did you lose it for? [He still sounds mostly curious and trying to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there, even if Ren clearly doesn't have a firm answer either and finding one just out of this is basically a pipe dream.
Still, a moment later, he shakes his head like he doubts he'll really get it anyway.]
You'd know better whether it could've been that power that caused it, anyway. There's always rumours and stories about powers like that in my world, card spirits and whatever, but I've never seen anything come of it.
[He doesn't sound dismissive, because he believes in his own deck as much as anyone else does and will dismantle anyone who dares to insult it, but it's hard to think of it as much more than fantasy when the closest to truth he has is a vague memory of brutality not fitting someone he now knows well enough to make that call, and the apparent existence of other kinds of spirits.]
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Still, a moment later, he shakes his head like he doubts he'll really get it anyway.]
You'd know better whether it could've been that power that caused it, anyway. There's always rumours and stories about powers like that in my world, card spirits and whatever, but I've never seen anything come of it.
[He doesn't sound dismissive, because he believes in his own deck as much as anyone else does and will dismantle anyone who dares to insult it, but it's hard to think of it as much more than fantasy when the closest to truth he has is a vague memory of brutality not fitting someone he now knows well enough to make that call, and the apparent existence of other kinds of spirits.]