Liliana - Zombie Summoning

And that, finally, was that. Semner ceased spinning the dagger, allowing it to come to rest pointing directly at Liliana’s face. “What I said about killing you being a waste? Nah. I’m going to cut the best parts off of you and take them with me. You think you can summon something up before I start cutting?”

  “Now why would I need to summon anything,” she asked with a sudden, vicious grin, “when I’ve got so many friends right here?”

  Behind him, the dead bodies of both his victim and one of his own men had dragged themselves forward on bloodless hands. Brittle fingernails snapped against the weight of the corpses; twin trails of blood, already dried and blackened by the touch of Liliana’s animating magic, matted and stiffened the shag of what had recently been a clean carpet.

  And as Semner finally got wise enough to realize that he should probably be afraid, each of the corpses reached out a hand and clamped a deathless clutch on his calves.

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 7