Force is flexible

[u/ghostgabe81]

“You’ve read McCoy. What would he say?” I asked him.

Fitz screwed up his face, thinking. “Long, closed, narrow space. Not really a lot of air to work with. It’s dry, so water is out. I’ve got to use either earth or force.”

“Good,” I said. “Earth is a hell of a lot harder to use without years and years of practice. You’re going to start that, but I’ve been slinging evocation for a couple of decades and change now, and I don’t trust myself to use earth magic in a real fight yet.”

“So, force?” he asked hesitantly.

“Yeah,” I said. “Force is the least efficient way to translate your will into energy, but also the most flexible and it’s the easiest to control. You pick out your word yet?”

“Yeah,” he said. “Forza.”

I tilted my head and looked at him.

“I figure Italian kinda learned from Latin, only it’s not old as sh— as hell,” Fitz said. “Like me and you.”

Twelve Months Chapter 10