"Yes, Mort. Life is dangerous," Vi agreed, his eyes still upon the clouds that drifted subtly but insistently over the two stars that burned above. Watching the interaction with the whisperfish out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't stop the smile that warmed his usually stony expression.
"Ludo speaks sense, for once," he mused, raising a hand against the water that splashed against him, casting rainbows here and there where it hit.
"I have been sorely tempted," he admitted, narrowing his eyes and wading to the riverbank to sit there. "You would have me breathe life back into the dead, Mort? How very you," he remarked. "And what then? I give them essence, only for you to take it again?"
"Ludo speaks sense, for once," he mused, raising a hand against the water that splashed against him, casting rainbows here and there where it hit.
"I have been sorely tempted," he admitted, narrowing his eyes and wading to the riverbank to sit there. "You would have me breathe life back into the dead, Mort? How very you," he remarked. "And what then? I give them essence, only for you to take it again?"
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