[ Note to self: less blood magic talk at parties. ]
I mean surgeries, primarily. I don't know what her other training has entailed exactly, but the Mortalitasi do a fair amount of repair work on the dead. Some of these things -- let us say, I would not teach a mage who had not taken vows. But without magic, some might be translated to the living.
it would be smarter to put distance between the pair of them. anders, gareth, nell — they're all appropriate weathervanes. known quantities of little consequence to the world at large. but a noblewoman and a mortalitasi (kostos counts for neither) can shrug off an accusation more easily. onto his own head.
it would be easier, it would be foolish. this is a fortunate warning. this can be useful. this is coincidentally a pretty solid bone structure. ]
Then caution's most due in the field — she has been seldom outside Nevarra?
Nor have I, to be quite fair. In that respect, your guidance would be invaluable.
[ At least he knows enough to know he doesn't know enough? (And that this request is perhaps a bigger, more dangerous sort of thing than he ought to simply trust to a man he's just met, but sometimes the quickest way to find out if there are rocks at the bottom is to jump in.) ]
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[ Note to self: less blood magic talk at parties. ]
I mean surgeries, primarily. I don't know what her other training has entailed exactly, but the Mortalitasi do a fair amount of repair work on the dead. Some of these things -- let us say, I would not teach a mage who had not taken vows. But without magic, some might be translated to the living.
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[ the charming local history, etcetera.
it would be smarter to put distance between the pair of them. anders, gareth, nell — they're all appropriate weathervanes. known quantities of little consequence to the world at large. but a noblewoman and a mortalitasi (kostos counts for neither) can shrug off an accusation more easily. onto his own head.
it would be easier, it would be foolish. this is a fortunate warning. this can be useful. this is coincidentally a pretty solid bone structure. ]
Then caution's most due in the field — she has been seldom outside Nevarra?
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Nor have I, to be quite fair. In that respect, your guidance would be invaluable.
[ At least he knows enough to know he doesn't know enough? (And that this request is perhaps a bigger, more dangerous sort of thing than he ought to simply trust to a man he's just met, but sometimes the quickest way to find out if there are rocks at the bottom is to jump in.) ]
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[ like, not that it's covered in flowers in a nice part of town or anything ]
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[ 'work'? 'calling'? 'mucking about with corpses instead of quite reasonably burning them'? ]
If you'd prefer a guide, I might arrange the time.
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[ How generous. ]
The day after next, perhaps?
[ He's got a date with a corpse first. ]
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[ Or would it? Food for thought. ]
In the afternoon, then. I have every faith we can manage it.