214 Kel'Thor Citadel

"Are you certain about this?" said Ven'thur as he adjusted his monocle, looking through it with sunken in, hollow, skeletal eyes on a crowded desk in his laboratory. His skeletal fingers were wrapped around a rotating, crystalline knob at the table's center, and as he turned it a little bit clockwise, then anti-clockwise, a faint, gurgling sound like flowing water echoed throughout the cavern.

"Did you not mention it before? When I set out to do something, I do it," said Li in his own true form now that they were in the privacy of Ven'thur laboratory. Although it had been torched the last time Li had encountered the lich, it had been restored with some help by Alexei.

"And I am confident this will succeed."