That wasn't her point, though. She knew that through the power of an asterisk and through performing certain actions, she could get results. It was the lack of a why performing gesticulations and yelling "Fire!" at the top of your lungs created a fireball that continued to infuriate her. "Yes, magic has rules, but they're completely and utterly inscrutable! It's a black box! You do X, Y happens. At least with magitek the fundamental rules lose some of their opacity through experimentation, you know which runes do what and can potentially ascertain why they do that thing through experimentation, and anyways, most of it is rooted in conventional science that just use crystals as a power source," Connie argues.

"...good point about the dolls, though. Why does anyone use them? They're just plain creepy."