[She appreciates his understanding of the situation -- as well as his willingness to let her get her own doors. No matter how much time she spent with him, Jean-Claude never remembered her 'penchant for doors,' as he called it. Richard always did. She liked that kind of attention to detail.
Once they're settled at a table, she leans forward slightly, both to hear him more easily and to be able to keep her voice low. She's not shy or embarrassed about her power anymore, but every detail of it doesn't need to be common knowledge, or interrupt other people's meals.
Face it, sometimes necromancy got gross.]
Well, first of all, it's not something that you can learn if you don't have the innate ability for it. You're either born with it, or you're not. It usually manifests around puberty, and then you need training or else it's just going to be out of control. Your power will use you, instead of you using it.
The actual raising of the dead is simple enough, though the extent to which it can be done varies from person to person.
[Being a true necromancer rather than just an animator means that her own powers over zombies are extended, too. It's actually unnerving, to think about how old a zombie she might be able to raise if she really tried. They might not be very useful -- so many of the parts would have become dust over time -- but still.]
The ritual isn't as complicated as people want to think it is -- which is lucky for me, or else I might not have stumbled on the right way to put a zombie to rest while I didn't have my memories. You have to create a circle of power around the gravesite, usually by walking it. You need ceremonial ointment, which is different for every animator. The primary ingredients are the same, a lot of it is graveyard mold, but everyone has their own particular blend. The last ingredient for instant zombie is a blood sacrifice. I prefer to use chickens.
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Once they're settled at a table, she leans forward slightly, both to hear him more easily and to be able to keep her voice low. She's not shy or embarrassed about her power anymore, but every detail of it doesn't need to be common knowledge, or interrupt other people's meals.
Face it, sometimes necromancy got gross.]
Well, first of all, it's not something that you can learn if you don't have the innate ability for it. You're either born with it, or you're not. It usually manifests around puberty, and then you need training or else it's just going to be out of control. Your power will use you, instead of you using it.
The actual raising of the dead is simple enough, though the extent to which it can be done varies from person to person.
[Being a true necromancer rather than just an animator means that her own powers over zombies are extended, too. It's actually unnerving, to think about how old a zombie she might be able to raise if she really tried. They might not be very useful -- so many of the parts would have become dust over time -- but still.]
The ritual isn't as complicated as people want to think it is -- which is lucky for me, or else I might not have stumbled on the right way to put a zombie to rest while I didn't have my memories. You have to create a circle of power around the gravesite, usually by walking it. You need ceremonial ointment, which is different for every animator. The primary ingredients are the same, a lot of it is graveyard mold, but everyone has their own particular blend. The last ingredient for instant zombie is a blood sacrifice. I prefer to use chickens.