I don't know. [Hector rubs his hands over his face. Now that he's sat and eaten, his body is remembering how tired it is. He pushes past it.]
He's always been clever, and I doubt the past years have made him less wary. It would need to be done carefully. If I was seen leaving the castle with the urn, and I did not immediately begin to pursue Isaac's trail...
[What would be the steps he would take, if he were actually conducting the revival? He traces a finger along the table, as if looking at an invisible map.]
Turn my feet toward somewhere where I could forge without interruption, gather up the material components....
[He begins to see the snags.] Just ash and bone wouldn't be enough. It would take other components...[no, call them what they are]...corpses...and he would take notice that I wasn't collecting them. Besides, I don't know if he'd believe you'd relinquish your father's remains to me, nor that I'd stolen them and come out of it completely unscathed.
[It feels hopeless, and he lets out a long sigh.] He knows me a traitor...maybe if he thought I was taking them hide them away from him, rather than to use for my own designs. He might intervene then.
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He's always been clever, and I doubt the past years have made him less wary. It would need to be done carefully. If I was seen leaving the castle with the urn, and I did not immediately begin to pursue Isaac's trail...
[What would be the steps he would take, if he were actually conducting the revival? He traces a finger along the table, as if looking at an invisible map.]
Turn my feet toward somewhere where I could forge without interruption, gather up the material components....
[He begins to see the snags.] Just ash and bone wouldn't be enough. It would take other components...[no, call them what they are]...corpses...and he would take notice that I wasn't collecting them. Besides, I don't know if he'd believe you'd relinquish your father's remains to me, nor that I'd stolen them and come out of it completely unscathed.
[It feels hopeless, and he lets out a long sigh.] He knows me a traitor...maybe if he thought I was taking them hide them away from him, rather than to use for my own designs. He might intervene then.