It's Relatively Safe, Relatively

"So this is the evil gun you found?" The pistol was just on my desk, underneath it the head of the snake I'd used to transport it home (that good ole snake used for so much thanks for trying to kill me snake!) How did I get home? We were discovered by a flight and a rescue ship was launched, I actually made the paper about how two ship wrecked survivors managed to escape a wilderness. Thank gods that ship exploded or Vontresa would have been locked up (she didn't remember any of it by the way, any of it! Like not even finding the map, I figure this shit will come back eventually, but it hasn't so far). Of course Hanlon immediately found me afterward to see the pistol, which was still inanimate.

"Well I didn't find it, Vontresa did, but yes this is it."

"Excquisite." He had a light smile to his face which was as creepy as usual. When he put his hand over the pistol I swear I saw the green light again, but I was kind of tired.

"So is it evil?"

"Why would you think I would know that?"

"You know weapons and magic better than I do." He smiled again and put his hands back from the pistol.

"You flatter me Trezlan, but no its not evil, at least not that I can see, what it is is dead, or I should say inactive." I was still perplexed how just a simple fire magic brought down an evil gun.

"I'm still lost as to how that happened."

"The gods work in mysterious ways Trezlan, perhaps you're magic was the counter to the weapons evil? Or perhaps the gods took pity on a poor necromancer and decided to give you a break, I have no clue as usual, I'm just a humble weapon merchant."

"What should I do with it?"

"Lock it up somewhere safe and keep it, you never know when it might come in handy."

"Where do you keep an evil pistol of the gods?"

"In a box dear boy, in a box, a nice solid wood one." With that he left me with the evil pistol and the remains of the snake I'd kept it in. And so I took his advice and got a nice wooden box and put the pistol and snake in it (because the snake head carrying case was very bad ass) I actually have the box hidden in my desk because even though the weapon is dead I'm sure some idiot will come looking for it someday, probably. I mean you never know, maybe my proximity to it will slowly drive me insane... Nah I'm already crazy I can't be driven to be more crazy.