An entire day had gone by with me using every remedy, magical side step, and just flat out complete bullshit I could think of. Nothing worked. Like ordinarily I would have easily kicked the necro magic's ass. I would have had it over and done with and been on with my life. But no, not this garbage, whatever the guy had done he had done it well, it also seemed to mutate as I went. Like every time I thought I had it beat, the damned thing would be back strong as ever. I was standing outside of the young girls room on her balcony, if I had a cigar, a pipe or even a rolled cigarette I'd have been smoking it. Most of the rest of the high muckity mucks of the followers had left, it was down to me, Mordere, and the attendant who kept up with my ever increasingly weird ideas.
"You can't cure her can you?" Mordere joined me, he looked as drained as I felt, though he had spent the last couple days riding all over to acquire my ingredients of failure.
"Do you want the honest answer or the one that would keep me from being shot?"
"I have never shot someone for being honest, wait no thats not true I shot a guy because he told me who he was."
"Not really giving me a good reason to be honest."
"Trezlan I will not shoot you, I'm good for my word." I gave him a long look, but I knew I couldn't keep up the charade forever, a long time yes, forever? No.
"I'm trying everything I know and it's still kicking my ass, I'm even going back to extremely unpleasant memories and they aren't helping either. This magic is very strong, but something is pushing back in there." Mordere nodded his eyes almost seeing through me.
"So you're saying someone is working against us within the church." It was not a statement I'd make lightly especially to the man asking the question.
"Has to be, there is no other answer to this, no way could it keep beating me unless someone was helping it along."
"Well then time to go snake hunting." At that exact moment I felt sorry for my necromancer opponent, whatever he was, he would really struggle to keep up with a true master of murder that is Valerind Mordere, but it turned out, well you'll have to read the next entry of course!
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