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[vintage_magic]

Lily Ivory | House #1421
Husband: Lezard Valeth
Child: Hajime Ichinose
Child:

Owner of The Witch's Wardrobe

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[lezard_valeth]

Then you suspect he may not have dabbled in necromancy, but something else entirely, perhaps?

[vintage_magic]

I don't know how he made those critters appear but his magic sure as shootin' doesn't follow normal rules. [But now she's looking at him again, wondering just how he intended to bring the skeletons to his side.] You're not telling me you make a habit of talking to the dead, are you?

[lezard_valeth]

Talking to them? No... I'm afraid they're not very good conversationalists. Grunts. Groans. The ilk.

Only a Valkyrie could speak with the recently departed, you see. With enough magical influence, overpowering that manipulating the construct, I believe another can seize control of the skeletons to in turn prank upon lord of them.

[vintage_magic]

...Valkyries talk to ghosts? [She hadn't exactly pictured them as mediums.] But just how do you expect to do that when you haven't got your magic?

[lezard_valeth]

In short, yes.

[His mouth worked then in reply to her second question, and then he clamped up. Oh. Well.]

...Hmm. There is the proverbial wrench in the gearworks, isn't it?

[vintage_magic]

Yes, I reckon it is. And even if a bit of my magic had returned by then, it wasn't as if I could control them. They kept breaking into the house somehow and I even had to chase one out of the bathtub!

[She'd spent the rest of that evening giving the tub a thorough scrubbing.]