Everything that did not produce its own light owed the color and shape people saw to the way it refracted light. The human eye perceived that light, and the brain built an image from it.
As Wanda recited the words, the light refracting off the invitation was disturbed in an unusual way. What she saw was different from what an ordinary person saw.
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If Wanda Maximoff was right, magic worked like a translator, automatically rendering the writing into something a person who could use magic could understand.
It was nothing like an ordinary cipher, where mathematical rules mapped one character to another until the message could be decoded.
Henry found the discovery fascinating. It was the first time he had directly observed a subtle change in how magic worked, and it might offer insight into the energy technology he had been studying lately.
Wanda had used magic in front of him before, more than once. But he had never been able to make sense of what he saw. Even when he pressed her for details, the Scarlet Witch could only tell him how to use it and how it changed, not why.
After all, magic and magical power in Marvel were borrowed. Sorcerers faithfully reproduced rituals designed by dimensional demon gods, borrowing their power to produce specific effects.
But this world was not purely the Marvel Universe. It had plenty of other strange things mixed in. Did magic still follow Marvel's rules? Were there other systems of magic, and how did they work? Every question stirred Henry's curiosity.
The Kryptonian was already thinking of accompanying Wanda on this trip.
Still, he wanted to know more about the ceremony. "You said you're going to witness the young witches make their choice. Does that mean they can choose