Dio Explains
Just a silly little throwaway I drafted up, based on a fun little convo w/ Vul.
“Science, magic, they're the same. So okay, take an arcane gate. You can step across leagues in moments, right? People in this world just like, whatever, hand wave it away and are all 'yay magic' but there are mechanisms at play. What is an arcane gate? Yeah sure magic, but what it IS, is a localized wormhole, two points in space folded to be adjacent! It's all the saaaaame my dude! So okay teleportation, like-”
“Dio-”
“Hold on hold on! So teleportation seems like instantaneous matter transmission or destruction and recreation and THAT'S not at all terrifying but that's not right what it probably is, is a super fast transmission using the Weave, like a microwave beam and I bet with the right instruments you would be able to see a delay because light speed or w/e and oh shit would gravity affect magic, like-”
“DIO!”
“WHAT?”
“You're speaking earth girl again.”