[ not quite: the hair's human, spidery lashes the blonde baby curls, but it's only teeth dropped down its hard porcelain neck. they rattle as it bashes the side of its sealed crate.
cedric's armed, but only for routine; just shirtsleeves and a prybar. a nearby box levers open over diplomacy's precious stash of tea and sugar. ]
S'posed to curse its owners. Folks slipping out the bath, choking on a bone — that kinna thing. But it weren't active when we took it.
[The thing should be properly contained behind wards, and then safely taken apart there. But he does not have the wards of the Necropolis here, nor does he have the means to put together something similar on such short notice.
Cedric's words snapped him out of his thoughts.]
Something's made it active since? The attack on the Gallows, or do you have other suspicions?
[That could prove the solution to most safely unravel this mess. Hurling magic about wildly was never the best approach.]
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[ not quite: the hair's human, spidery lashes the blonde baby curls, but it's only teeth dropped down its hard porcelain neck. they rattle as it bashes the side of its sealed crate.
cedric's armed, but only for routine; just shirtsleeves and a prybar. a nearby box levers open over diplomacy's precious stash of tea and sugar. ]
S'posed to curse its owners. Folks slipping out the bath, choking on a bone — that kinna thing. But it weren't active when we took it.
no subject
Cedric's words snapped him out of his thoughts.]
Something's made it active since? The attack on the Gallows, or do you have other suspicions?
[That could prove the solution to most safely unravel this mess. Hurling magic about wildly was never the best approach.]