Magic vs Science
An centuries-long fight, never resolved.
Is magic an ancient power that falls beyond the human understanding? Or is magic just science that is yet to be discovered?
To Shuri, everything had a scientific, factual explanation. Even when she stared directly at the impossible, and it stared right back at her, she did her best to use her years of scientific knowledge and her intelligence to explain that what she saw.
This was clearly an experiment of some kind. Some enhancement of human DNA, having been replaced partially with that of a bird, that was the only possible thing that she could think of. Shuri had heard of human experimentation before, of people strapped down to operating tables and getting messed with in all the wrongest ways possible. This could be nothing else but that.
It did not matter this girl said she was from Heaven.
It did not matter that her wings were not alike to any kind of bird that roamed the Earth.
It did not matter that she did not bleed when cut, and that her body seemed to be nothing more than an illusion to contain something that the human mind was not ready to see.
“I will prove it,” Shuri said, crossing her arms before her chest, her jaw clenched in determination, “I will prove that you can be explained with science.”
The girl merely smiled, her lips curling up to something amused. A kind of light shone through from behind her eyes, making it seem as if she was glowing. “Go ahead,” she said, “I won’t stop you.”