>>5819785“It has no soul,” you said. “It has life… It has function, and movement… Shape, and form, and vitality… But… But it has NO SOUL.”
You both stared at the lizard you’d created. It stared back, and you both watched as it slowly lifted its belly from the tray and, with uncertain steps skittered from the table and down one of the legs, eventually scampering to a corner of the room where it—apparently without detectable SPIRIT—felt safe.
“What does it mean?” Zith-Zi asked.
You weren’t sue how to answer… But you knew it was important, one more step towards… Something. Something great. Something terrible. Something… New, and fundamentally outside of nature and magic and religion as you or any author you had studied knew them.
>NEW SPELL UNLOCKED: <Clone>What did you do next?
>You needed to speak with the Archmage—this would certainly be enough to appease her and then some, and you NEEDED her expertise and resources to understand what this implied, no matter what her own plans were>You had to get out of here NOW—with Izirina’s help, to expedite your escape and to hide your tracks—before the Archmage could get access to this research, and do something unknowable a but likely terrible with it>You were one the precipice of a true remedy for Hershy, and for Izirina, and for SO MUCH MORE… But to find the answers, you needed what the Archmage was hiding down below, and you weren’t about to ask permission when you had a magic-resistant goblin rogue right here>Write-in