Tom Crowley
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
Tom Crowley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Old and potent.
Back in the old world, it was the kind of thing they'd used to bring down city walls, but that was before they'd come up with stuff like electricity.
A handful of it would be enough for a clever person to power Paris for a year.
An unscrupulous person could get up to all kinds of fascinating trouble with it.
And from the way she was looking at it, I knew she wanted it.
She wanted this Phoenix Fire very badly.
Which is why I'd created the illusion of some for her.
No, of course I didn't have the real stuff.
There's only about five handfuls of it left in the world these days.
Don't be stupid.
No, what I have is a certain gift.
They call it lots of things.
Leisure de main, glamoury, the art.
It all comes down to the same thing.
I can make things look a certain way, make it so they tell a little lie to the eyes.
All I have to do is keep reminding the objects of their motivation.
It's like keeping a song running through your head.
As long as you can hold it there, people hear it out in the world.
And right now, this old bottle of Cronenberg I'd found on the street was singing the song of one of the oldest, most powerful magical artefacts in the world.
The fact that you can do glamoury is not the sort of thing you advertise if you're trying to keep a low profile.
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