Bad necromancy is hard to mistake. Even shackled to a wall without my magical ability I could hear the tell tale scream and explosion of power that improperly practiced necromancy causes (properly practiced necromany is quiet and almost unmistakeable except for those who know what they are looking at). You see when you screw necromancy up you are basically ripping open a life force (one of the most powerful forces ever, its basically raw magical power) and freeing it. Outside this is dangerous, inside this is extremely dangerous (the resultant force can accumulate and detonate, I have used this myself before as a means of escape).
So I was chained to a wall while a bomb of magical energy exploded not to far from my position in an underground cave. This is known as a worst case scenario (different from a Lorentino scenario because I didn't do it). Needles to say I was more than a little worried as the power got closer and closer to irridicating me, and then it stopped, reversed itself and the cave got eerily quiet. I waited because it could have been the calm before a really large explosion, but thankfully that did not come (again I write these entries, so I'm clearly still alive long after these events have happened!) Aelanes came from the cave mouth, his sword back in its place on his back. He was still pulsing with the power he had taken. I could see the messed up runes flashing a bit on his skin, though I could tell they had been modified from their original intent (originally the runes read like a simple necromantic spell, what they were changed to was a lot more powerful and explosive as I saw). Which told me either my apprentice learned by simply being near me (I do tend to speak in my sleep, or so Nidget whines about me) or Aelanes had not entirely been honest with me.
"I haven't been honest with you." Ok he did tell me he wasn't being honest with me. I have to admit seeing my apprentice had already learned some necromancy, had just taken several peoples lives, and I was still chained to a wall, well I was more than a little worried.
"Really? I hadn't noticed, why don't you get me out of here and we can discuss the whole thing." Lying about someone elses ability to murder you to put them at ease so they don't murder you? Yeah it never really works, but I had to try!
"No I need to tell you something first." There are few times you feel comfortable remaining in a position of no power when someone direly wants to tell you something first, and I can not think of any of them right now.
"Ok well go ahead don't keep me waiting."
"When I went looking for you, I ran into another person first, his name was Morley..." My blood went cold, not only was my disciple not potentially my disciple but he was Morley's a potential sleeper agent for the worst person to have ever lived, and there I was shackled to a wall. Well lets just say I listened intently to what had transpired between Aelanes and the WORST PERSON EVER! And I'll tell you all about it... next entry. So now I've chained you to a wall, because I'm nice like that.
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