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[Krylo]

Originally Posted by tacticslion

I think, however, this is supposed to be showing the beginning of the divergence between "super-science" and "magic" that the court exemplifies.

Pretty sure it's setting up the opposite. It's been pretty obvious for awhile now that the court is built pretty heavily on 'Etheric Sciences' at least in its early years, and that there used to be a unison between normal sciences and them, particularly with Diego and the birds. Further, Kat's refusal to believe that magic is just 'magic' and not something that can be explained and understood was foreshadowing for exactly what we're seeing here--her looking at an obviously magical design and trying to unravel and replicate it.

And Annie and Kat themselves represent the unification of 'magic' and 'science' with Kat being very technical minded and Annie being much more in tune with the magical forces of the forest, and yet the two of them being best friends. Edit: And the fact that they both had one 'magic' and one 'technical' parent, making them each living embodiments of the convergence they further represent by their attitudes and friendship.

There's lots more that foreshadows the unification between magic and technology over the story buuuuuuut I don't wanna type a novel.

I'm not you.