A Bloody Mess
August 20th
“Why would she hide that from me?” asks Houston. We’re back in the Archmage’s office. Steve is there, along with Necromancer Morton from Lansfield.
“Parents have a lot of strange reasons for keeping secrets from their kids,” I say. “We were all so worried about wild, complicated conspiracies that we forgot to consider the mundane.”
“Occam’s Razor,” says Morton. “The hypothesis with the fewest assumptions wins.”
“She and Ruth had planned to keep the truth of April’s birth from Harold. It makes sense that she simply wouldn’t want you to know because you might tell your uncle,” says the Archmage.
“And if Vivika was using April as an anchor then that would explain why she couldn’t be summoned. And it also explains why nobody could find her. No one would have tho
