Jagged watched Kiki work with the dispassionate eye of a true critic. Betraying neither praise nor dismissal, he watched the rune-script take form, both in this plane and the next. The precise lines and complex algorithms that formed that style of matrix were undeniably effective, but entirely not to Jagged's more primal tastes. His own were far less attractive to look at, in the physical world, but no less potent or complex in the metaphysical. He, however, originated from much different circumstances than mages like Rashoman, from a more savage place and time.
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