Please, I've changed my mind once in my entire life.
[ She says it, and it's fact. It had taken years of Catherine's careful, cautious manipulations to guide Akua to the place she was now. Even then, she had betrayed her, and even then it had taken that guilt that settled into her heart, seeing the spoilage at the heart of Praes, to convince her to finally give it up.
It was a long path, to where she was, but... it was not that long of a path. Akua looked young, after all. Perhaps not ageless, like John, but she was young -- eternally so, in fact, if they achieved their goals with Meridian. ]
I am not...unwise to the power of Necromancy, you know. I think I will prove quite the surprise.
[ A smile. ]
And if worse comes to worse, I'm sure you will bring me back, won't you? Reconstruct my body for me?
[ That's said with a bat of her eyelashes, not flirty, but... certainly with a little panache, as if she were asking for a car. ]
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[ She says it, and it's fact. It had taken years of Catherine's careful, cautious manipulations to guide Akua to the place she was now. Even then, she had betrayed her, and even then it had taken that guilt that settled into her heart, seeing the spoilage at the heart of Praes, to convince her to finally give it up.
It was a long path, to where she was, but... it was not that long of a path. Akua looked young, after all. Perhaps not ageless, like John, but she was young -- eternally so, in fact, if they achieved their goals with Meridian. ]
I am not...unwise to the power of Necromancy, you know. I think I will prove quite the surprise.
[ A smile. ]
And if worse comes to worse, I'm sure you will bring me back, won't you? Reconstruct my body for me?
[ That's said with a bat of her eyelashes, not flirty, but... certainly with a little panache, as if she were asking for a car. ]