“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?”