Scalpel spell

Being a genius interrogator, I asked her, “So. Why’d you kill Harvey?”
She looked at me for a fewseconds, then turned her eyes back to the room below, to watch Karrin come to the table. There was a moment of silence from everyone as they took in her armament. Then Grey rose, suddenly dapper, and offered to help her with the rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked.
“I didn’t kill the accountant,” she said quietly. “Nicodemus said not to.”
That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn’t need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent.
“He said that to all of us,” I said. “Maybe he said something else to you privately.”
“He didn’t,” she said. “My mother killed him with a spell she calls the Sanguine Scalpel.”
“The cuts looked a lot like the ones you would inflict,” I said.
“A cut throat is a cut throat, wizard.”


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