Man, Palamedes suggesting that the Sixth call in an expert from the Ninth to help overhaul their skeletal servitors really hits hard on just how much the Ninth is diminished. Harrow was maintaining the Ninth’s infrastructure mostly on her own. How many Ninth experts are there left to call on? Twenty? Fifty? Twelve? One?
Omg don’t hide this in the tags!!
need the AU fic that’s just Harrow and Gideon showing up in increasingly improbable disguises for all these different “experts” Pal needs and Cam and Pal just keep their poker faces on so they think they’re fooling them
and the requests keep escalating because Pal wants to know how far Harrow will go for this and it just devolves into a weird game of necromancy chicken and Camilla and Gideon are just… in the room, communicating with their eyebrows. They’re friends at this point, probably, but they haven’t said a word to each other.
