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lan wangji
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The name matters?

The nature of the practice matters more. It's considered a Dark Art when and where I'm from.

Rightfully.

If the dead are controlled without consent.

You make it sound like you ask them for consent.

The necromancer so prevails.

How? How does the necromancer prevail? If you raise the dead prior to consent to ask them for consent for them to be raised, is it not a moot point?

You need not raise them.

You need not raise them to check? How then?

To be stirred, spirits must linger.

As I glean.

So you're one of those who raise the dead - but not the undead that were below, in the tunnels.

( OFFENDED IN LAN. )

I make no claim to necromantic skill.

( Girl. )

If I have offended -

[actually, no.]

I apologise for trying to guess at what you are gleaning.

I thought you spoke in riddles as a result of stress (and freezing waters) but it seems not.

I bear the trust of a master of the art.

Oh!

Are they also here?

Effusively.

Maybe I will meet them, then.

You yearn for necromancy.

[What.]

No.

I don't yearn for anything, first of all. I just would like to ask some questions about the whole practice, out of curiosity for other forms of magic.