"I always knew he'd come back to kill me, but to involve you and another necromancer? Well that's silly, if anything you guys are a liability." Hanlon of course saw right to Morley's plan, in that he immediately suspected the bugger of trying to kill him (which might have been true, I don't know I didn't listen to the spiel).
"Wait why do you think they'd be here to kill you? They could be here to kill me!" He looked at me like a parent does with a dumb child.
"Trezlan if they wanted to kill you, they'd already done it on the island or any number of times, no Morley wants to use you to get to me." It made sense, and in a way I'm sure I kind of lead them to Hanlon since he wasn't at his factory and I had to sort of track him down, sort of conjure him up (I don't know how I get a hold of Hanlon really, I just kind of think about him and pseudo look for him and then he appears, this time he met me outside of a market just casually like I hadn't called him out of thin air). I was about to retort about wanting me to be in an optimal position to get killed when a group of armed men assaulted the market.
"Ok so this appears to make you correct, but I'm just saying maybe these men are here to kill me." They started shooting up the market place almost immediately. Like maybe they should have been a bit quieter considering the general authorities in modern times, but apparently they paid those guys off because the authorities never showed up. Hanlon and I took cover behind a table, I was once again not armed because I'm an idiot and I never learn my lesson, Hanlon also appeared to be without weapon.
"Give us Hanlon and we'll let you out of here Trezlan."
"You were saying?" I didn't turn to look at Hanlon because I knew he'd have a look on his face that would upset me.
"Could be a trick to get me to announce my presence." It wasn't a trick they did want Hanlon, but I never just give up someone that easily! Well unless I don't like them, like say some how Nidget had time traveled to the future and was in trouble? Totally turning him over without a word! Anyway we were trapped and for some reason Hanlon couldn't do his usual tricks (which was a trap by Morley, something I discovered afterward, but again could have been coincidence and a trap for me... ok it was totally Hanlon they were after). I do have to wonder what Hanlon meant about necromancers being a liability around him, alas I didn't get to ask him because shit went sideways pretty fast. I'll get into that next entry of course.
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