[Dodged, avoided, ignored. Ratchet doesn't really expect to be called out on it; his experience was that people tended not to miss what they didn't really notice was missing anyway.
He raises his eyebrows, not so much in surprise, but curiosity.]
No?
[It's almost funny how quickly he had become adjusted to simply accepting anything he wasn't used to as easily explained away by "magic". In some ways, it was almost a relief to have that challenged, to remind him that some stuff, while different or strange, might still have some kind of reasonable explanation to it. Or if not reasonable, at least grounded.]
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He raises his eyebrows, not so much in surprise, but curiosity.]
No?
[It's almost funny how quickly he had become adjusted to simply accepting anything he wasn't used to as easily explained away by "magic". In some ways, it was almost a relief to have that challenged, to remind him that some stuff, while different or strange, might still have some kind of reasonable explanation to it. Or if not reasonable, at least grounded.]
"Lineage factors"...like, genetics?