Jefferson and Emma in “Unfinished Business”

When you were in high school, did you learn about the Civil War?

Emma

Yeah. Of course.

How? Did you read about it, perchance, in a book? How is that any different, any less real, than any other book?

Emma

History books are based on history.

And storybooks are based on what? Imagination. Where does that come from? It has to come from somewhere. You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution for their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic. [points at the hat] Now get it to work.

Emma

Here's the thing, Jefferson. This is it. This is the real world.

A real world. How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands, each just as real as the last. All have theier own rules; some have magic, some don't, and some need magic.