“Though not as powerful as your grandmother’s, but my mother’s staff is powerful enough because it is charged by one of Lithe’s scales. From what I know, whenever Lithe struck a deal with someone in the past he always offered them one of his scales in exchange for their full service and devotion to him.” “Wait a moment, I thought he doesn’t have a physical body anymore?” Katrina frowns, and the warlock slowly nods. “He doesn’t, but he did keep a few of the scales from his real form long before he died. At least that’s what I learned from my mother’s memoir.” “What else does the memoir say?” “It mostly talks about how these scales carry an element of his previous power as a demon, in time past the way Lithe fueled himself and his power was to capture and feed on the souls of humans a

