[ The truth of his current face is more complicated than a simple glamour, only a very small handful of people know why. This body, this unscarred face is his default now, but it is not how he originally remembers himself. His botched passage through the White Space had changed him, given him the body of the man whose timeline he landed in, he's come to suspect.
A man who was not brutally marked by his - their mentor a decade ago.
When Dion explains himself, Kahlil nods - though the answer has him looking both thoughtful and curious at the other man. That he doesn't think it would work at all makes Kahlil think the wound must bear some sort of curse. He won't pry that far, but he does end up asking: ]
Is it forbidden where you come from? [ Magic. He frowns slightly. ] It was that way in my home world.
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A man who was not brutally marked by his - their mentor a decade ago.
When Dion explains himself, Kahlil nods - though the answer has him looking both thoughtful and curious at the other man. That he doesn't think it would work at all makes Kahlil think the wound must bear some sort of curse. He won't pry that far, but he does end up asking: ]
Is it forbidden where you come from? [ Magic. He frowns slightly. ] It was that way in my home world.
[ Thorne had been a shock to him, too. ]