Option 1: In fact, yes. Paintings don’t usually talk.
Painting: Well, your “usual” and my “usual” clearly differ. Shall we agree to disagree on the matter?
Option 2: Are you with those ghosts from yesterday?
Painting: Unlike those restless spirits, always wandering hither and thither, l’ve been contentedly hanging on this wall for over fifty years.
Option 1: Please, stop him!
Deuce: You want me to cast a spell to stop him?
Option 2: He’s shirking his cleaning responsibilities!
Deuce: What? That’s not right! But how to stop him?
Option 1: So now what? Grim: Can’t you guys just blow that thing up with magic?
Option 2: Can’t you do something with your magic? Deuce: The headmage said it himself— magic has limits. If you can’t strongly visualize your magic, it isn’t going to happen.
Option 1: Oh, I’d assumed spellcasting just came naturally.
Ace: Nope, although if the magic’s your specialty, you can use it more intuitively.
Option 2: So that’s why Grim can only summon fire.
Grim: Hey! I’m gonna learn how to use WAY cooler magic than that, for the record! I’m just hittin’ my stride here!
Option 1: Would two of you knock it off already?!
Ace & Deuce: *gasp* Grim: Whoa, that was loud. Where’d that come from?
Option 2: So I guess let’s all just get expelled, then.
Ace & Deuce: What? Grim: Whoa, that was harsh. Where’d that come from?
Option 1: You said it yourself —we can’t hurt that thing.
Grim: M- myah…
Deuce: Urk… But… But what are we going to do, then?!
Option 2: Why not try cooperating a little?
Ace: With Loosey-Deucey? No way. He’d get me killed!
Deuce: Like it’d be some treat for me to work with you?!
Option 1: What if we all just worked together?
Ace: “Work together”… Is that some kinda joke? You always say the lamest things with the straightest face, prefect.
Option 2: What if we came up with a proper plan first?
Ace: A proper plan? Like some kinda buddy move? Is that a joke? You always say the lamest things with the straightest face, prefect.
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