This is the kind of thing that magic spells are made from. A golden string of fire, plucked from the sea at dawn.
And it makes me think of how difficult these must be to gather; you’d have to plan and wait and hope the conditions are just right. What if there’s too much fog? You’ll have to come back another day, and who knows if the spell can wait that long?
But what if the invention of photography changed all that?
Just imagine some witch wasting flower after flower on a spell without being able to get it right, with each one withering to uselessness after a single try. She finally runs out of flowers. Then she looks at the newfangled Polaroid that her nonmagical family gave her, and she wonders.
Five minutes later she has a photo of a rose from her neighbor’s garden. Six minutes later she has a functioning spell. Seven minutes later she realizes the photo has crumpled, but the rose outside hasn’t.
This is the beginning of a new era of magic use. Just imagine the possibilities.
#omg #what would video footage do then #what if you had a recording of a surgery #and you needed bloodshed for your dark magic #would that work #blood is shed #there is definitely ritual in surgery #specialized tools and stuff #could you sacrifice a dvd with a training recording of surgery on it to summon a demon
Only one way to find out! I’ll bet that demon arrives very confused.
