“Your vow of silence is conveniently variable, Ninth, I’m very grateful.” “Turns out I’m variably penitent. Hey, you should be talking to Nonagesimus.” “If I wanted to talk to Nonagesimus, I’d talk to Nonagesimus,” he said, “or I’d talk to a brick wall, because honestly, your necromancer is a walking Ninth House cliché. You’re at least only half as a bad.”
