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Most importantly, effective. I'm bad at physical combat so the best thing to do it make sure I can't wield my wand at all.

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...Hermione. Think. How did you enter her thrall?

So far, only the dead and necromancers.

The volcano in Ke-Waicai - I think the energy, or spirits, that I absorbed to ease the pressure there stayed with me.

Why there?

Closest I've come to the undead, maybe?

Wei Ying. Wrath. You have encountered necromancy before.

Yes, well... [ A long pause, before she muses out loud: ] Maybe after Sanwon, I am more like one.

...see if you answer to Wei Ying's flute.

...beg your pardon?

His flute controls dead and resentful energies.

And you think that if I carry them, he will be able to control me?

Or perhaps the deadness may resonate with his song.

I confess I don't quite understand how that works.

Death and resentment answer him, like hounds the whistle.

I am not dead.

Then you need not fear his flute.

I do not - but keep him far from the Huntress. I will go and do what you advise but I would rather go where he is than ask him to meet me.

Understood.