“He takes the dead and makes them alive. Well, not like us, like...puppets? He’s been taking bodies from the crypt here and the town’s graves. I think the full moon boosts his power or something and he’ll use it to make an army.” After Claribel finished whispering the plan as she knew it, she walked inside the library, waving at Sohn to follow her.

She went to one of the shelves and pulled out some books. Hidden behind them was a sword, which Claribel pulled out and showed the shepherd.

“I took this from my uncle when he got killed,” she sadly said, using a familial term for the city guardsman. “He found me, but the old guy got us before we could get out. I’d like to stop him with this before he can cast, but I don’t know how to get past his dead guys. Er, the puppets. He’s made three of them move so far, but maybe there’s more now?”

Magolor & Eliel...

Suddenly the mystery of where their bodies had disappeared didn't seem like so much of a mystery after all. The very idea sickened him. To be used such. It was unholy. Evil.

He swallowed hard as he considered her story. And her plan. "He most certainly has more. Or is making them now," he commented as his brow furrowed in thought. If the old man had taken their bodies, then at least he should be busy for a while, right?

"Let us not wait for the moon," he said (still whispering), keen to be gone sooner rather than later. He held up his lantern, the flame burning brightly, "Fire set to the curtains and around to the rows of books would soon spread and consume this mansion, depriving him a place to work his dark ritual."

Hopefully, it would kill the puppets too... if killing something that was already dead was even possible.

He took a book that looked old and started tearing pages that could be used to start a fire (though did not actually start burning things just yet)

Claribel just looked irritated at this point. “I just said he has a crypt here. Burning down this place won’t do anything, and might spread past here back to town. I’ve been around most of here by now to get away from the old guy, and I know he stores the bodies there. He also talks enough for me to know that he’ll move them outside to do his...magic thing. Prolly for maximum moon power or something.”

After saying this, she paused to think before continuing. “But yeah, we shouldn’t wait for the moon. Do you know where he is now? Usually he’d be chasing me by now.” Claribel shuddered a little at the thought, somewhat grateful for the reprieve from having to run away from him. It was kind of a twist from the past few days that she’d be the one looking for him, but with this new guy working with her, maybe they could save Grainville.