"That's enough."
A blue whirl wind covered in lightning shot down, dispersing into Merlin. "That's enough fox boy."
Villar sneered. "Do you have ANY IDEA how many times I've killed you?"
"Little pieces of me that returned to the whole making the rest stronger. I've reclaimed the rest of me, well, the parts that lived in this stretch of reality, leaving my 'mundane' apprentice and 'guard dog' to watch over the store in many universes... I have to remember to give raises to each iteration."
"That just means when I kill you I'll be rid of you!"
"Don't mistake a droplet for an ocean fox boy."
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Gloria asked, "Kellie! How did you get the mummies to agree to an alliance so fast?!"
Kellie remembered the discussion,, 'We will give you our aid and power... if you agree that when the next of your clan dies, their body is used to become one of us. This ISN'T some 'we give you superpowers and you're the same as ever! You get to continue your life no fuss no muss!' Your life as it was ENDS when you die. As the vampires are aristocrats, and the liches are autocrats, we mummies are theocrats. And none can serve two masters. Our unlife and power is fueled by our gods the same way magic fuels the unlife of the liches. The new you will be part of our devotion to Ra, Osiris, Anubis, and the others, no duel citizenship. But for the threat of this evil, we swear by our gods that we will fight at our absolute strongest to the end to cleanse this evil that threatens your domain and those you care for... we swear this by Ra himself.'
Kellie hesitated. "No time for now! We've got wolf-beasts to save!"