Raid (Part 2)

Doevm pushed right through the clerk's ribcage with a sharp crack, squishing the slippery brown and red organs underneath his shoe. The clerk's last words never left his throat. His eyes went wide as his body went limp.

Black tendrils of mana spread out from Doevm and surrounded the fresh corpse, which twitched. Its eyes regained their light and whitened like its skin. Doevm withdrew his foot and kicked some of the blood off: "I think I'll name you, Clerk. Clerk, what did you tell the members of the resistance?"

'I told them,' Clerk said through the new mental connection, 'That you accepted the mission for that Elero girl, went by an alias by Mr. Lich, and you came here looking for advanced healing books.'