Aldros leaned back, smoking his pipe and trying his best to ignore the quiet bickering going on in the back of his head. Balam was a ill-tempered personality even on the best of days, of which there were few, but the quasi-divine echo of Tenebrous irritated the other vestige even more than most, and Tenebrous returned the animosity. Not quite as bad as the literally inhuman hatred that Amon invoked among a number of its peers, but it still made for somewhat of a distraction when there was nothing else to focus on.<br/><br/>The arrival of a more-than-half-naked floozy, flouncing her way into the room, was a very suitable distraction. Aside from the mammary adornments that spoke of a horny teenage wizard's apprentice designing his first transmutation spell and going typically overboard, she wasn't entirely unattractive. But a streetwalker, however pretty, was hardly suitable company for their impending mission.<br/><br/>[<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;"><span class="bbc_u">I Don't Like Her.</span></span>]<br/>Tenebrous didn't often comment directly, but now it did, and Aldros could feel the vestige looking 'out' through his eyes at the newcomer.<em>Why?</em>, he asked silently.<br/>[<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;"><span class="bbc_u">I Don't Know.</span></span>]<br/><em>Then figure it out, or stop bothering me.</em><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">I DONT LIKE HER EITHER.</span><br/><em>You don't like anyone, that's hardly new.</em><br/><br/>Momentarily confused by the rare occurrence of agreeing with each other, the two vestiges fell silent, letting Aldros pay full attention to the whore. A whore with sorcerous talents, apparently - or at least she said, it was entirely possible she had simply sold the Red Wizard on a good story, and probably gotten paid in advance for her 'magic'. He cleared his throat and set the pipe aside at the mention of necromancy.<br/><br/>"I'm no priest of any god, but I do know a spell that can make it seem otherwise. I can use my magic to imitate the control clerics can exert over the unquiet dead, or destroy them entirely if present in large numbers."<br/>