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[Regina's currently tying a good bundle of sticks together. They better be dry, she's getting tired of carrying them around. But clearly, she's up to something. Maybe it's malicious.

Maybe it's dark magic!]

I require a place for a bonfire. If there's no funeral pyre, best to send the fallen off with a large fire. Bring your offerings, or not. I don't give a damn, so spare me your pious opinions.

[Then she adds.]

So come then, those who practice the old ways. It usually takes a bard and a druid. Not one ovate.

[Though there's something that's really been on her mind.]

For the time I have been here watching this world go asunder and revert into it's nonsensical ways, along with it's people, I cannot help but wonder something. Perhaps it's a good thing, perhaps not. Why not more of my own kind? A nephilim, that is. Someone fair as me -- we're half-demons. We're not fair folk. Why not more of my kind? I only know of one of my own ilk; now, if I was able to sense and smell more demon blood, I am sure that I can find more.

I almost miss my own kind. More so the women. Human company takes so much on my nerves, as it is.

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On your nerves? Why is that?

Because where I come from, they torture, murder, rape, and abuse my kind.

Here too?

Do you think months of being here will undo what humans have done to my kind long since I was born, boy?

I don't know how you can stand being around them, personally. They're twisted, wretched scum where I come from...

I'd help with the pyre, but as dumb as this might sound coming from one of Hel's, funeral rites weren't my thing. She didn't teach me a priest's lore, just old magic. Necromancy... was the closest thing, and I can't practice that anymore.

[Not to mention she probably wouldn't.]

Would that not depend on who sires them? I've had more of a pleasant experience and company with my own kindred.

I would much rather Necromancy be left out with what I do. Not unless someone I know from Eire was involved; that's been her choice of magic.

I figured you'd say that about necromancy, honestly. Besides, it's not like it works here.

I've met a lot of different sorts of demons. They were all punks. Different vices they got tied to, but it was all about sin and corruption with them.

It's best not to toy in it, regardless. I often wonder how that woman doesn't raise the dead- or perhaps I'm speaking too soon. She does have a pact with war goddesses.

Purebloods, yes, but half-bloods? Not all of us are unruly. If a modest amount was here, we could see to each other.

Knew a necromancer once who was bent more on killing undead than anything, so they reversed energies a lot. Sort of ironic really...

But yeah, there's a definite difference between our worlds. Half-bloods in my world, besides being rare, tend to be pretty deranged and tormented things. Believe it or not, I'm one of the saner ones. There's a reason they're usually 'kill on sight' for some people, much as I dislike the attitude.

That sounds like a small few. It may boil down to how they are treated and cared for at a young age. So you say you're one of the "saner" ones; I don't know how you can look down on your own kind so much. They have suffered more than you.

Hers was an order focused on the destruction of the undead. I believe they were the main example of the case.

...

It's less that I look down on them. I do not trust them, and I recognize they're dangerous. They're usually so far gone that they're little more than mindless beasts. It's hard to pity them, since they just attack or destroy.

So? The same can be said of nephilim. Some of them never learned to control that urge or they were exploited. I can freely admit that I was that when I was much younger. Without a care or remorse to who I killed and tormented and I paid for it.

Well, you and I sort of prove that it's not impossible for our kinds to find a shred of peace now and then. So, I can't completely throw them to the wolves. But, experience usually shows it's wise to be careful until I know for sure what they're like.

Honestly... I'm a little like that with everyone anyway.

[Oh it's you.]

Well, you'll probably need help to stack the wood for a pyre. I'm not doing anything, so I'll help.

Are you certain?

I wouldn't have volunteered otherwise.

How curious; sometimes there are some who are reluctant to partake in old traditions out of some irrational fear of devil worship or some such nonsense.

Well, I figure since I'm dead it doesn't really matter. Besides it can be a hard task alone, or with very few people.

[He's unsure that he understands, but he's very much in a mood to help.]

I would be honored to participate, if you will have me.

[He inclines his head; to honor the dead, there is something he is far too familiar with. Perhaps not her way of doing it, but he can learn.]

I see little logic in the choices the Gods make at times. Would talking of those you left behind help? I will listen.

Of course you can come, I would not shun you.

Bring anything you like with how you honor the dead.

Very well. [He nods] Then I will see you shortly.

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