I had a few false starts on the book, and in at least one the characters found it in a break in the pavement in a back alley. I can remember being very taken with the idea of magic flowing into the world through a crack in the ground. I've tried to recall precisely what inspired this specific material back in the early 2000's, when I first started working on Indigo Springs. I have always imagined that light shines on it with the same intensity that it does when it hits a fresh wound, and in fact one of the other names for this liquid magic is 'spirit blood.' There's a sense in which the earth starts bleeding vitagua in these two books: it seeps from an inner realm into the real world. The vitagua in my books Indigo Springs and Blue Magic is a fluid that is deep blue in color, faintly luminescent, and it has the viscosity of fresh blood.
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