Your "spider-tingles" can inform you of discrepancies in space-time?
[Flat. Dubious. This explanation is highly unlikely and a little slipshod, but Peterβs being difficult about it, continuing this game of informational keep-away. And that in itself is worrying. He may not know him too well, but one thing is irrefutable: Peter keeps his heart on his sleeve. Now that heβs playing at an angle, trying badly to obscure it, Stephen wants to know why.
What could be so important?]
Youβre fishing.
[βit comes out a little too tersely than intended, and he pauses, recenters with an exhale. Be nice, Stephen. Heβs just a kid with a lot on his plate even before slingshotting from world to world.
He tries again, scarred fingers flexing at the crook of an elbow.]
β¦Fine. Itβs not a thrilling recollection. I was at the Sanctum, making the rounds to reinforce too many passive spells to count. [ u g h ] Then, after a dip in the summoning pool, I arrived here.
[Pointedly leaves it at that, waiting to dissect any reaction that follows.]
in which off-screen vagueness reigns supreme
[Flat. Dubious. This explanation is highly unlikely and a little slipshod, but Peterβs being difficult about it, continuing this game of informational keep-away. And that in itself is worrying. He may not know him too well, but one thing is irrefutable: Peter keeps his heart on his sleeve. Now that heβs playing at an angle, trying badly to obscure it, Stephen wants to know why.
What could be so important?]
Youβre fishing.
[βit comes out a little too tersely than intended, and he pauses, recenters with an exhale. Be nice, Stephen. Heβs just a kid with a lot on his plate even before slingshotting from world to world.
He tries again, scarred fingers flexing at the crook of an elbow.]
β¦Fine. Itβs not a thrilling recollection. I was at the Sanctum, making the rounds to reinforce too many passive spells to count. [ u g h ] Then, after a dip in the summoning pool, I arrived here.
[Pointedly leaves it at that, waiting to dissect any reaction that follows.]