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Now there's a surprise.
'Looking at a dead man walking.'
All right, you've got my attention. Go to Red Alert and buckle yourself in. What the hell is a


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dead man doing in Veritie?
'I was going to ask you that.'

What's it doing, right now7
'For the moment, just standing around, looking confused '
Oh good For one horrible moment I thought you 'd wandered into a Lucio Fulci movie.
'Zombie Flesh-Eaters is a classic of the genre, and I won't hear a word said against it Any ideas
as to what I should do next?'
Leo had no idea who or what his Brother actually was. He admitted to being extremely old and not
entirely human, and lived, if that was the right word, buried deep under one of the hills
surrounding the town The last time he saw light, the Roman Empire was busy declining and falling.
Leo inherited his Brother Under The Hill on his father's demise, and from that moment on he and
the Brother could talk to each other, mind to mind, no matter how great the distance separating
them Whoever or whatever the Brother was, he'd been doing it for centuries. He liked to say he was
raising Morns, and would keep at it till he got it right The Brother saw, heard and knew
everything that happened in the town below him, in Ventie and Mystene, although he only existed
now m the magical world The Morns were his only means of communicating with the two worlds Leo was
the first Morn who had chosen to live in the real world, which had been the cause of a certain
amount of friction between them.
But Leo was determined to be nothing like his father.
Keeping a dead man up and walking in the real world isn 't something your average necromancer or
dabbler in the dark arts could manage, mused the Brother. This has to be the work of one of the
major players.
'I had managed to work that out for myself,' said Leo, just a little testily 'I've been running
through the usual suspects, but Jackie Schadenfreude is out of town at the moment, the Lord of
Thorns is still sulking in his tent after getting his fingers burned in the Cup of Tears fiasco,
and Jessica Sorrow the Unbeliever wouldn't bother herself with anything this trivial Damn, that
woman scares me '
I told you not to sleep with her.
'She didn 't exactly give me a choice Look what do you think we should do about my dead friend?'
I love the 'we' bit Stuck as I am beneath this bloody hill, it's up to you to do something And do
it pretty damned quickly, before the mortals are forced to notice what's come visiting their
fragile little world The last thing we need is a panic in the town and intrusive media people.
'Can't you see who's behind this? I thought you were supposed to be all-knowing.'
Normally I am; but whoever did this is hidden from me. Which is worrying.
'Wonderful,' said Leo. 'Don't you have any suggestions? If I try to drag Reed out of here, that's
going to attract the very attention we 're trying to avoid. And I really don't see him listening
to reason - oh shit...'
What? What?
'The Waking Beauty is glaring at me from her corner. If she's manifesting in the real world, the
situation must be even worse than we thought. From the way she's looking at me, it's clear she
expects me to do something pretty sharpish. Interfering old biddy. You are sure she can't hear