My Shades froze next to me awaiting orders. I took over Mr. Slime’s body and looked around. He was in the large Hangar adjacent to the Veil on their side. This is where they’ve shoved the cage with the Dragon into and inadvertently caused a disaster by cutting away a piece of the wall to slide the cage in and bringing down a part of the upper floor. Now he was surrounded by about two dozen teens in similar uniforms, the doors were sealed and the room was getting filled with some yellow gas. Some were panicking, some were convulsing on the floor and several have been dying. I started grabbing those souls and returning them into the bodies making the kids into Zombies. Could I’ve revived them? Yes, at this point I could. However a freshly-revived person would need to breathe again and there’s this strange poisonous gas in the room. I can easily send my Shades into the gas – we don’t need to breathe – but that would've not helped the kids. If we carry them across the Veil, they’ll die the moment they touch it. So ironically, turning them into Zombies is the only way to save them. Twenty seven kids. I’m exhausted. I’ve actually gotten some Mana from the Shades making sure to leave enough for shadow-jumping. Suddenly it’s getting crowded on our side of the Veil. Since I have to use Mr Slime’s body I am not really aware of what’s going on around mine. However the Shades seem happy with the newcomers so I finish Zombifying all twenty seven, order Mr Slime to pick up one of them and march through the Veil to our side. I’m spent. I break off and order the Shades and the new arrivals – the Humanoid Assassin group under the command of my former classmate Val – into the Other World. Get the kids out and outside of the Cave. I never get tired of watching them move – I felt the wind blow past me and by the time I’ve slowly reached the entrance to the Cave, I saw Dr Nectar dashing between her patients laid out on the pebbles. Welcome, kids, to the first Sunrise of the rest of your (un-)life.
Dr. Nectar is again really disappointed with me. I’ve risked my live needlessly. No, dear, you’re wrong this time. I didn’t even cross the Veil and all Shades were next to me the whole time. Tired – yes, risked my live – not this time. I still get “a look” and the Holy Maidens, who are standing to the side feeding their Mana to the Doctor, express their total solidarity with her. I know, I know, without women we, men, would just think we’re perfect and would probably fly off on our over-inflated ego. We should be grateful that someone’s looking after us. Trust me Kate, I am very grateful to you. So grateful that I’m willing to tolerate your “wife-ing” of me.
In a few moments I’m rested enough to walk over to Mr Slime still standing to the side, looking at the scene he probably hoped not to see ever again. I don’t want to talk to him but I need to learn what happened. I lock eyes with him and start walking in his direction. I guess a glare of a Necromancer isn’t easy, because all of a sudden he tries to run away. Sorry, we’ve gone over this before. I have total control over your body when I need to, Mr. Slime, so here you are, walking back to me, standing still and now there are five nice Smiling Drows standing around you. Well, I didn’t want you to run, you tried to disobey, now you’ll stand really still – just like I need you to. I don’t want to read you mind remotely – when my hand is on your head I spend almost no Mana getting information out of you.
