Note: There will be a Halloween Sketchbook tomorrow.

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- The lab at Moperville University (and two pages later when Tedd talks about people going to it for magic problems)

- All black eyes when ranting at a magic mirror

- Tedd with "Lord Tedd" eyes in part 4 of Layers

- "Do you know the secret to (royalty)? How they're a scam?"

- "No. That's Everything."

BEHOLD! A huge "but"!

I originally wrote this in a way that could be applied a bit more generally. To me, to you, to Steve down the street, everyone. A general message against hate and anger clouding judgement.

Buuut this is a story, and there are things specific to Tedd. We're not all science-focused NERDS concerned so concerned with maintaining objectivity, nor are we all seers getting independent study labs to research magic.

Regardless, it is still worth considering personal responsibility and whatever power we might possess in our own ways.

Narration!

I chose rectangles for Tedd's narration here because I see this less as Tedd's literal thoughts in the moment, and more a general summary of what's been going through Tedd's mind on the journey back to Elliot's house. Were we to go literal, Tedd's thoughts would far more likely be whatever's being written down on the dry erase wall.

Granted, a lot of thoughts we see in stories probably shouldn't be taken literally. How often would our own thoughts make complete sense to others when written down? The thoughts we see are definitely filtered in a "make sense to psychic eavesdroppers" way.

WHICH I'd love to see reflected in a story with mindreading at some point.

"Yes, I can read their thoughts, but have you ever read someone's thoughts before? No? I thought not. They're nigh-indecipherable messes, that's what they are. The irony of it is that, the more difficult something is that they're trying to sort out, the easier is it is to understand. Well, I'd think it obvious why. Words make difficult things easier to sort out. Someone deciding on something simple, maybe you'll get something here and there. Someone sorting out the meaning of life? That's when you get something you can write down."

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- Thursday EGSNP

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