Chapter 2: Dead Bird Flying

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"So... What's you've been up to... Since last night?" Abi asked Nicole. She took Nicole to her house and gave her something to eat. "Since Magnus died and all that!"

"You know..." Nicole said. She had a mug on her hand and was sniffing it before drinking it. In hundred years people tried to kill her with poison and by now she could identify poison by the smell.

"Of course I know! Jake and Beetles crashed here and told me. They're back in Loris doing what they do best, steal lost things."

"They're still doing that?"

"And scamming people. And treasure hunts..."

"They didn't change that much then..."

"Years pass and they're still the same old"

Nicole nooded and kept drinking from the mug. It was coffee and Nicole hated to admit it took longer than expected to found out.

"And you? What do you do nowadays?"

"I... help people!"

"In what way?!"

"You know... Stealing from de government... Running away from the government?"

"What government Abigail?! Magic world have a council! A very bad one who couldn't stop a kid and let the problem get worse."

"You were not a quite easy kid to stop as I heard..."

"I'm not talking about me! They could stop ages ago and they were like 'Oh no! Let's see were this is going!'... The only one that ever did anything was Rafe... And I just wanna apologize to him but I don't know if he's alive or not!"

"Well... That's tough. " Abi said sipping from her mug. She didn't know what to say to Nicole. Nothing would've help.

Both stay there, drinking and talking about everything and nothing. Nicole didn't have anywhere to go and Abigail was enjoying having company who wasn't Jake or Beetles.

"I have a question."

"Well... Ask away!"

"You said you became him... With his memories and all of that... But you also said there were nine of them before..."

"Yeah, nine before me. Nine lifetimes of memories that for some reason, I have them all."

"You could... talk to the others?"

"Yes, not all the time. More when I was sleeping. It was kinda of a meeting, you know?"

"So... you didn't want to any of it...?"

"Of course I didn't! I didn't want to destroy the world! But... at the same time I had to prove my worth."

"You did the worst you could?"

"Twice. Not just my worst, I needed to do worst than it. And turns out that I did."

"The monsters. It was you?"

"Making Imps smarter? No, it was a kid. A brilliant kid. His parents ask me for shelter and offered to work from me and I gave shelter to them and their son. He decided he wanted to help me. I never saw a necromanci with intelligence before him. I hope... I hope he's alive."

"Damn! How old was he?"

"21. Started officially working at 18 but before he already had done so much."

"What was his name...?"

"Scot Moore Underworld. Why?"

"Wait... Moore as Andrew Moore? As Sarah Moore?"

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