“With his bones,” Wagner said, raising his eyebrows. “I saw it. He used his alchemy to contain all the souls inside pieces of his own bones. It was strange, but if a piece stayed with the prisoner in the array, they could not die, even if they tried. Then Morrough could keep the power.” The phylacteries. It was exactly what Kaine had described. “The souls of the others, they would feel that life, they would try to resist, but the prisoner could not be killed. Still…slowly their mind would—” Wagner touched the sides of his head, pulling invisible strings as though unravelling something. “Are
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