[He can guess that magecraft is like magic, so he doesn't ask about that, but the word 'scientific' is another completely foreign one. If Diarmuid was a little less naive, he might think that the other boy was trying to make himself look smart by using all these big words, but he is not and so the thought never even crosses his mind.
Besides, he's more interested in correcting Kerry's obviously incorrect view of the nice people who live here.]
They need our help and we are suppose to help others! They didn't kidnap us. People do that to others to hurt them, not help them. Everyone has been really nice to me even when I didn't understand.
[Like the lady who had told him about the books, for example.]
And you don't know how they did it. They might have used fairy magic! Just because you don't like that explanation doesn't mean it's not true!
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[He can guess that magecraft is like magic, so he doesn't ask about that, but the word 'scientific' is another completely foreign one. If Diarmuid was a little less naive, he might think that the other boy was trying to make himself look smart by using all these big words, but he is not and so the thought never even crosses his mind.
Besides, he's more interested in correcting Kerry's obviously incorrect view of the nice people who live here.]
They need our help and we are suppose to help others! They didn't kidnap us. People do that to others to hurt them, not help them. Everyone has been really nice to me even when I didn't understand.
[Like the lady who had told him about the books, for example.]
And you don't know how they did it. They might have used fairy magic! Just because you don't like that explanation doesn't mean it's not true!