[For Steerpike] Warlock and Apprentice
The days are growing shorter and the nights visibly longer. The dark time of the year is quickly advancing, and Muraki can sense his power growing... not stronger, but more focused. Now is the time to get to work, to roll up his sleeves and start setting a few traps for his handful of targets: first and foremost is that damned shinigami, but there are others he may consider setting snares for, including his troublesome fellow countryman, the skewed-eyed beauty, and the man who bedeviled his sister in spirit.
But more importantly, he has a student whom he is continuing to train; the youth has absorbed theory like a sponge and he is impressed with these results.
He's setting to work adding more to the preternatural security on the hidden room in his lab, namely the Great Pentacle of the Greater Key of Solomon in red and black paint on the ceiling. But before that, he slipped a note under his student's door: How handy are you with a tin of paint? I'm doing a little painting in the hidden room in the basement laboratory and I could use an extra pair of hands.
But more importantly, he has a student whom he is continuing to train; the youth has absorbed theory like a sponge and he is impressed with these results.
He's setting to work adding more to the preternatural security on the hidden room in his lab, namely the Great Pentacle of the Greater Key of Solomon in red and black paint on the ceiling. But before that, he slipped a note under his student's door: How handy are you with a tin of paint? I'm doing a little painting in the hidden room in the basement laboratory and I could use an extra pair of hands.
