It was rare, but with all the talks with Vick the nuit needed a slight break from his work combining the magics of Alchemy and Malediction. The wizards were a duo now, constantly playing with theories to harness the strengths of both magics. It was a game they played, and now they had someone they could rely on. Rayage had Vick, and Vick had the Alchemist. Both could use their collective skills to further each other, and the partnership had so far been highly beneficial. It was exhausting as well, as it tired the mind of the ages old nuit drawing up formulas and theories all day long, twenty four seven. He didn’t mind it, not one bit, but a break was needed.
This was why the nuit was even out of his lab. In fact, he was walking back to it, a book tucked under his robes. For a distraction, and not a time wasting one the nuit decided to get some study materials on a new discipline of magic which he had been introduced to in Sunberth so long ago. If the undead intended to teach Wrenmae anything then he would have to first know the material well enough to explain it. Spiritism was the name of the magic, and it would be needed to further aid against the dog which Dira had sent after them.
He mused to himself silently, his strides slow and thoughtful, slightly slower than the average nuits pace if only because he was absorbed in thinking about exactly how to present Spiritism to Wrenmae. Would the man be open to learning a new magic? Tightening the grip on his book, he shook his head, he had more important things to think about: the bodies he was going to help Vick make. The theory was all solid, but the execution would take a while. The nuit frowned.
Descending the stairs Rayage passed many a nuit in the halls, but he gave not one attention, even when they acknowledged him. He hadn’t the time for them now. He brushed them off and walked by them without a second glance. He had important work to do, and to do that work he would have to go all the way down to lab 45-E, his personal laboratory.
“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow