Oh, I can do that too. That's devil forging. Use dead things to make a body souls from Hell can inhabit. It's a way of replenishing the populations of Night Creatures that have been hunted to near-extinction.
[It's completely ethical conservation work. Recycling AND restoring a balance. Nothing sinister or evil going on here, it's fiiiiiine.]
You and your bees. You probably could, but you'd lose some experimenting to find out how. Would you be willing to pay that toll?
[For all of Hector's successes, there had been many more failures, at least at first. Things that came out wrong, or that failed to awaken. It had been a hard blow, especially when he'd been a fledgling necromancer.
He watches the nug make a mess of his treat. Hector's house is crowded with animals, though most of the cats stay at the shelter, not in Everett and Hector's cottage. There's the army of rats, the velvet worms in the basement, and of course Cezar there.]
I think I could make a suitable cave for little Venomous and Covered In Big Pointy Spines with Huge Teeth. You don't mind sharing with some rats, do you?
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[It's completely ethical conservation work. Recycling AND restoring a balance. Nothing sinister or evil going on here, it's fiiiiiine.]
You and your bees. You probably could, but you'd lose some experimenting to find out how. Would you be willing to pay that toll?
[For all of Hector's successes, there had been many more failures, at least at first. Things that came out wrong, or that failed to awaken. It had been a hard blow, especially when he'd been a fledgling necromancer.
He watches the nug make a mess of his treat. Hector's house is crowded with animals, though most of the cats stay at the shelter, not in Everett and Hector's cottage. There's the army of rats, the velvet worms in the basement, and of course Cezar there.]
I think I could make a suitable cave for little Venomous and Covered In Big Pointy Spines with Huge Teeth. You don't mind sharing with some rats, do you?