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He is a not particularly fit specimen of older humanity. If we'd gone just sword and talon he'd have fallen in the first exchange.

[That's half a joke.]

Both in the end. You

the you there needed someone who saw her as more than an object. More than what she could give. I had to try.

You were closer to others there and he ripped you away from them with what he'd done.

He had also lied to me. He'd said making

constructs like Kiriona was an abhorrent practice in his Empire. Not done.

Being such a construct myself I'd taken it for reassurance that he wasn't as bad as our necromancers back home.