Book 6: Chapter 34
Kay gathered up his companions and anyone else that would be more useful back home and flew them back to Avalon. Making mass graves and cleaning up battlefields wasn’t the best use of his time and the Earth Mages and Earth Manipulators who’d made the defensive wall would be able to finish the job quickly. Kay had also left orders for a marker to be raised where Martha the necromancer had faded away. He had no idea who’d she’d been or what the title she’d called herself meant, but the woman didn’t deserve to go unrecognized for the battle she’d fought for so long.
“What’s wrong?” Eleniah asked. The two of them were in a small private chamber Kay had made in the construct he flew them with. “You’re tense.”
“… I had a… call it a vision, I guess. The necromancer woman, she had something controlling her, something eldritch. I told you that, right?”
“You mentioned it, but we didn’t have time to go over the details. Was it like Blood Puppetry?”
Kay shook his head. “No, although that’s another topic that’s bothering me, but we can come back to that. It was some kind of parasite that took over her body after killing her, but she didn’t die and it ended up being a standoff, I think? I’ve only got a little bit of the story and it’s disjointed.”
“She told you before she died?”
“No, the parasite tried to take me over and I got some a vision of it’s memories. I’m not really sure why, but there were bits of it’s thoughts like I was watching it think about what was going on bundled up with older memories, and it confirmed we’ve got a problem.”
She stared at him blankly for a moment. “An eldritch parasite tried to take you over and you saw it’s memories and thoughts. Yes, I would call that a problem.”
Kay waved her off. “Not like that. I felt it die, it couldn’t deal with my biology or something. Whatever the System did to me when I became a vampire killed it.”