"Yeah, well. You ever hear the saying about sufficiently advanced technology?"
I shrugged, nonchalant as you please. "They can do some weird things. Mess with reality. Why couldn't they also mess with your memory? Doesn't seem that far-fetched to me."
But then again, as somebody who knew exactly how to both conjure fire and meddle with somebody's mind, I knew that the latter wasn't really that difficult.
That was part of what made it terrifying. Part of why it was such an addictive form of black magic. Even an indelicate brute of a wizard like me could still manage some pretty insidious manipulation if he was willing to get into somebody's head.
"I'd say I don't think you're... barmy," I continued, "but I don't know how much that would mean, given my proximity to the latest madness."
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"Yeah, well. You ever hear the saying about sufficiently advanced technology?"
I shrugged, nonchalant as you please. "They can do some weird things. Mess with reality. Why couldn't they also mess with your memory? Doesn't seem that far-fetched to me."
But then again, as somebody who knew exactly how to both conjure fire and meddle with somebody's mind, I knew that the latter wasn't really that difficult.
That was part of what made it terrifying. Part of why it was such an addictive form of black magic. Even an indelicate brute of a wizard like me could still manage some pretty insidious manipulation if he was willing to get into somebody's head.
"I'd say I don't think you're... barmy," I continued, "but I don't know how much that would mean, given my proximity to the latest madness."