[It had just been a very baseline explanation, using terms that that he knew were easy enough to understand and not loaded with his own opinions. Symbols weren't involved in the traditional sense, but the power of them was invoked purely on instinct. To use it actively and cut something like that...]
Holy crap, man. You cut them?
[He hadn't realized that anything could. Those blasts were immense, and the ones Cliff had faced were mild.]
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Holy crap, man. You cut them?
[He hadn't realized that anything could. Those blasts were immense, and the ones Cliff had faced were mild.]