In that case, Skulduggery nearly asked, why isn't there even a hint of Necromancy in mine?
But that wasn't what he needed to know right now, regardless of whether Raphael heard or not. "It tells you everything. You've had a long time to practice. If someone were new to the whole business, how much could they tell? Say, if someone were subtly manipulating something around them, how obvious would that magic have to be before it..." He hesitated, trying to think of the right way to phrase what he meant. The feeling of being lost for words was so foreign to Skulduggery that the pause lasted a beat longer than he really meant it to. "... shows up, in their soul, to a novice?"
Particularly when said person's soul was far more under their own control than any human had ever been able to say.
Skulduggery's attempt at remaining vague was about as obscure as a glass wall, he knew. Hell, he was probably broadcasting it by this point, whereas before he'd hidden it so well that the thought didn't even consciously occur until just now. Ever since being thrown into the metaphysical deep end... But there was no way he could hide it now. Not when the worry was latching on to the already existing worry and growing at an exponential rate.
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But that wasn't what he needed to know right now, regardless of whether Raphael heard or not. "It tells you everything. You've had a long time to practice. If someone were new to the whole business, how much could they tell? Say, if someone were subtly manipulating something around them, how obvious would that magic have to be before it..." He hesitated, trying to think of the right way to phrase what he meant. The feeling of being lost for words was so foreign to Skulduggery that the pause lasted a beat longer than he really meant it to. "... shows up, in their soul, to a novice?"
Particularly when said person's soul was far more under their own control than any human had ever been able to say.
Skulduggery's attempt at remaining vague was about as obscure as a glass wall, he knew. Hell, he was probably broadcasting it by this point, whereas before he'd hidden it so well that the thought didn't even consciously occur until just now. Ever since being thrown into the metaphysical deep end... But there was no way he could hide it now. Not when the worry was latching on to the already existing worry and growing at an exponential rate.