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Here again, but this time he has a black cat following him and a suitcase. Fabian finds a table in the forum, sets down the suitcase and let's the cat hop up on the table with him. At first it looks like she is doing what any other cat would do when on a table and presented with random items: paw it off the table. Although it seems like she's actually just helping him arrange the items.

"Well, I didn't really have much to say the last time. I think it was a bit of a boring question, wasn't it?" He continues to unpack: small containers, sachets, an other such things all filled with various ingredients. A few teas, some potion vials?

"But now I have a little more drama in my life, so I have something more exciting to ask."

Jasmine - the cat - paws over the last item he unpacked and then went to sit at the edge of the table to look around at the people of the forum.

"So let's say that you are a magic user," Fabian begins. "And for the most part, your magic is used for the better. To help people, healing and things like this. However, you just might have knowledge of something a bit darker. Now, you don't particularly love advertising this fact nor do you enjoy using it."

He stops there, and looks up, an almost regretful look on his face. "Consequences, after all. But!"

Fabian returns to arranging some items, "someone has come back into your life, and they are not all that happy about it nor are they too favourable over the fact that you're still alive. It's only a matter of time, really, that they find you and knowing them they wont go after you per say, oh no. They'll go after the people you care about."

He sighed and stopped what he was doing. "And they're stronger than you, and smarter than you, unless you use black magic." A beat, "And before anyone says it, no there's no option of involving someone else. My world has plenty of magic, none of which is used in public eye. It's an elusive world the powers that be choose to ignore. So that option is out."

And besides, any authority wouldn't be able to handle Tobias anyway. This is one of the rare moments that Fabian has clarity of mind, being here helped, he needed to sort this out.

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Admittedly, it's the cat that catches his attention initially. As much as he loves animals, Viatorus rarely comes across them. Anything resembling tea also is worth his time. And then there's the final ingredient... a magic-related question.

He thinks quietly as he approaches and hovers closer. Taking some time to fully consider the question, he's quiet when he replies. "Can you... not be you? Or... make it too troublesome to come after you? Redirect his focus somewhere else?"

Said cat seemed to notice the man who quietly approached. Her head perked up and there's was no doubt that she was staring right at him. He may (or may not) come to notice that she was not just a cat. Her attention toward the young looking man caught Fabian's attention, and his gaze moved from her to him with consideration.

"I'm a hedgewitch at best,"he had a feeling that this man would know that term, so he chose to use it. "I could, technically. Not without sacrifice, though."

Cats staring is nothing new, but he does have to make some effort not to stare back. As he understands it, that would be rude. Even if she is a pretty cat.

The man's words surprise him more. The term she chooses is a little unexpected. The first time he arrived in the Nexus, and in several instances since, people reacted badly to the idea of talking to someone who uses magic. Perhaps people are more welcoming in this man's world, but Viatorus has to take a second to take in the term, and then consider the answer.

"And... what is this other person?"

She has a pride big enough to give Lucifer a run for his money. If the man chose to stare back, that would only bring forward a very complicated game. It's complicated enough with people in general, playing it with a cat is even worse.

"A sorcerer," he said, and then chose to expand. "There's three basic principles of magic in my world. Magic that is drawn from nature, magic that is drawn from elements and concepts, and magic that is drawn from the self. The two latter are less common, the last is especially uncommon."

It's not that accepted in his world. It's just that cloak and dagger kind of magic is very uncommon and witches, the more common magic users, are often overlooked as crooks, con artists, and kooks. Which is fine, really. It's not common to find a witch that has any inclination to do much harm. Those that did practice darker arts, well no one really found out about it anyway being that they practiced darker arts and all.

"Anyway, you might have made the connection that a sorcerer is, in my world, the definition of a magic user which draws from themselves. He has a particular set of skills that make things.. difficult."

"So... you're a hedgewitch and he's a sorcerer..." He says it aloud to get his thoughts rolling. It's clear from the way his eyes lose focus and look elsewhere that he's working through this problem. That's what he does, after all. Finds a problem, and does his best to solve it.

"You... can approach this in a few different ways, I suppose. If you could make yourself invaluable, perhaps. Necessary. If not to this person, then maybe to someone equally powerful, or respectable." Viatorus shifts his weight from one foot to the other. "I don't see why you shouldn't involve other people. Friends would almost certainly want to help you, and a hedgewitch's greatest power might be the friends they make while practicing their craft. Even if you can make yourself too troublesome to be harmed, it would be a solution."