NaZooverse - Book 1: The Risen Curtain

Chapter 17 - The Interview: The Mage's Association

Mammals may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

~Russel M. Nelsow

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Zootopia was a city where mammals went on to take care of their business every day. After all, it was a big city. Busy and busting with movement and life. Mammals went here and there all the time, all of them taking care of their own personal business, making something important, or simply walking around either by themselves or with some company.

From the streets of the city to the small stores that sold all manners of conveniences and objects.

Speaking of which, a particular store that sold electronic articles, with a wide variety of options for all tastes and needs, was particularly busy.

Many mammals walked on this store, as they varied from adults looking for new laptops and computers for their works and personal business to cubs who were walking with their parents and begging them to buy new videogames for their PawStation IV. Mammals of all kinds walked in there, all of them looking for some short of satisfaction that the store could provide.

All of them had walked in the store, but now, most of them were gathering into a certain section of the store: the consumer electronic section.

This section had all that one could want for their household, from domestic appliances to the kitchen to televisions of all sizes and styles. The televisions in particular, were the center of the attention. Mammals were coming from the entire store and stopping what they were doing to look at the televisions. Better saying, they were coming to see what was being show in them.

It was something normal for these televisions put in the store to be plug, turned on, and tuned into something to show that the television worked and had a very good image. The televisions had each been set into a specific channel, however, at that moment, they all had been tuned on the same channel.

Maybe it was because of the owners of the store that had decided to tune into that specific channel, for they considered that it was something important. Maybe it was another reason. However, they were all tuned into the same channel, and showing the exact same thing. The ZNN was still showing the interview with a genuine mage, giving explanations about mages and related subjects. This caused all of the shoppers to stop what they were doing and looking at the television, as they wanted to see what was going on. Some of them were talking among themselves, discussing all that they were saying on the interview, but most of them only wanted to look into the televisions so they could hear what explained by the ferret. A small crowd formed in front and around the televisions, as the animals all wanted to see and hear what the interview was all about...

"Well, that pretty much sums up the most basic of magecraft and Magic." The ferret in the screen said, as the mammals watched intently to the same image in the multiple televisions. "There is a lot more to it, obviously, but I told you I'd only explain what I could. I'm pretty sure that the big shots of the Association would not like me talking more about this than I already have."

The mammals in there all had become greatly interested among themselves. Most of the adults merely looked with interest, but in fact they were very much amazed by what they were seeing, although a few of them looked like they were not liking what they were seeing and hearing. The cubs, however, were a bit more excited over it; a small polar bear cub, in particular, looked ready to explode as he looked at the television. Some older mammals shared the opinion of the cubs, as the geek-looking mammals talked among themselves, commenting on how magecraft was so scientific...

Meanwhile, the interview was continuing, as the televisions were showing:

"Yes, this was a great Magecraft 101." The vixen said, as she looked back at the ferret, both of them appearing in the screen of the televisions. "But... I'm sorry, you have talked about this 'Association' a few times now. Would you mind talking about it next?"