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[matadorable]

If you're hearing this message, I am probably not here. Or I am furiously pressing every button I can because I forgot how this thing works. One of the two! Either way, I will get back to you...eventually.

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[matadorable]

[It's hard for Manolo to compare the panic of drowning to the finality of death. They're two separate things in his mind, and he can't think of a scenario where someone would want to leave the Land of the Remembered for no good reason at all.

On the other hand, maybe these souls were forgotten or cursed somehow. That, at least, might explain why they're so desperate to live that they're willing to destroy other people to get their way. Not that it justifies hurting others, nothing justifies that, but it would at least explain why someone could do something so terrible.

He's not about to argue that point, though, least of all with someone whose family has been working with the dead for a thousand years, so he lets it rest for now.

In any case, it sounds like death works a little differently here than it does there. Can something as universal as death really be that different in each world? Manolo can't quite wrap his mind around that.

Still, something she says catches his attention.]

How can you tell if an imPort is dead?

[bindsthedead]

I feel it. It's part of being a necromancer- I can sense death and the dead.

[matadorable]

Oh. [He silently wonders if that applies to him too, but knows better than to ask.] Are there a lot of dead imPorts here, and are they that dangerous?

[bindsthedead]

There are people who died and were revived, but they don't really count- they feel just like anyone else. Vampires, though- they drink blood from living people.

[matadorable]

[So dead people can be revived when they get here. Good to know, although he's not sure about the full implications yet.

But vampires? Can't say he's seen one of those before.]

I can, uh, see how that might be a problem.

[bindsthedead]

If they cause too many problems, I can bind them- make them not hurt people, no matter what they want.

[matadorable]

Bind them with what, exactly?

[bindsthedead]

With music, and my will. Charter magic is sometimes involved.

[matadorable]

[That all sounds interesting, but of course Manolo zeroes on one thing:]

You can use music to bind spirits?

[bindsthedead]

All necromancy is tied to music. And thus, every Abhorsen has had training in that area.

[matadorable]

Oh. I didn't know that. [This place was just full of surprises.] What kind of music is it?