skeletonize: (1)
💀 ʜᴀʀʀᴏᴡʜᴀʀᴋ ɴᴏɴᴀɢᴇsɪᴍᴜs 💀 ([personal profile] skeletonize) wrote in [community profile] collectedmemes 2020-06-13 09:16 pm (UTC)

( necromancy is something so commonplace in the nine houses that it scarcely requires consideration — they are, after all, the nine houses of the Resurrection, who had been brought back from death by the man who became God and the God who became man, the Undying Emperor himself. in drearburh, the skeletal constructs that worked their fields and their mines were more numerous than the living penitent themselves (and that was very much part of the Ninth House's problem). it is difficult to wrest one's mind from a position in which something like this would have been considered commonplace to one where she now must suddenly consider how it would startle those uninitiated.

not that harrowhark really cared about startling anyone, but (far more importantly) her materials for bone constructs are frighteningly limited here, and she couldn't afford to lose good oss to the hysterics of those here she has to assume are pre-Resurrection humans.

the garbage can hits the ground and is kicked towards the shambling skeleton with a calamitous clamor; harrow can scarcely turn to face what was going on before the tumbling bin takes out the construct at the knees, causing it to collapse onto the floor into a heap. it would probably look pretty funny for anyone else who wasn't her. her eyes narrow to slits, giving her face the grisly look of an empty-eyed skull as she peers in alex's direction. it's easy enough to put two and two together, here. )


I would ask you not to attack my constructs.

( already the skeleton is beginning to pick itself back up again, whatever damage occurred to the relatively fragile bones slowly knitting itself back together. she is, for about the thirtieth time, very grateful for the theorem she had found in the Second House's study — otherwise this one would have ended up thoroughly useless from a rolling trash can, and that is pretty embarrassing. )

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