[ Unfortunately, Day is not in a state to immediately answer. He's gripping onto his arm tightly through the layers he's put on to survive the Northern cold, like he hopes the pain will help ground him.
He already went through this rodeo with that ridiculous ghost. Arguably it was even worse, because it transposed these events onto the people of the present, cast it in a new light that followed his dreams for a while. Even then, he could still cast magic, because he could focus on what he needed to do.
Right now, however, he's fresh off the ride of emotion of Solomon's memory, only to have this wound reopened again, laid bare a moment of his life he's only told a handful of people about, sometimes couched in a way so that he could give himself a bit of distance.
(And his name, his name, the one that can't stay in living or written memory, suddenly exposed to someone he wouldn't have given it to just yet, maybe not ever, in a manner like this.)
If it had only been one or the other, he would have been fine. He cannot deal with both. For the first time since he's arrived in this strange world, despite every other stressor he's ever had to deal with, Day's magic is sputtering and failing. The protection is not going to hold up. ]
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He already went through this rodeo with that ridiculous ghost. Arguably it was even worse, because it transposed these events onto the people of the present, cast it in a new light that followed his dreams for a while. Even then, he could still cast magic, because he could focus on what he needed to do.
Right now, however, he's fresh off the ride of emotion of Solomon's memory, only to have this wound reopened again, laid bare a moment of his life he's only told a handful of people about, sometimes couched in a way so that he could give himself a bit of distance.
(And his name, his name, the one that can't stay in living or written memory, suddenly exposed to someone he wouldn't have given it to just yet, maybe not ever, in a manner like this.)
If it had only been one or the other, he would have been fine. He cannot deal with both. For the first time since he's arrived in this strange world, despite every other stressor he's ever had to deal with, Day's magic is sputtering and failing. The protection is not going to hold up. ]