"So, Maurice picked your brain?"
"Yes." Wendy answered "First he put a spell on me, and I must have blurted enough of what went on."
"You don't recall?"
"He made me forget, of course. He knew that I had more information to give and to see through my eyes what I had read. But for that he needed Irina's help"
"Irina bit you and put you under his control?"
"Yes."
"How come Amos did not know it? You were mentally linked since he fed off you more than once."
"Maurice knew enough about Amos. He knew that Amos could interfere, and from Raft he knew about Kisasi, and he knew that a spirit of revenge would not like someone killing his prey. So he used a spell to block the information getting to Amos…. Yes, Irina bit me, and then everything went fuzzy."
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Maurice smiled as the mesmerized Wendy recited word by word the procedure that George Midler had used for his experiment. How to animate a dead body, which he planned to use."
"You want to sew up your own patchwork man?" Irina asked.
"No, one dead body is enough. What I want is a vessel to trap a will of the wisp."
"You cannot! The wisp is Fae, it will not submit."
"Once trapped in flesh it will obey me, as you obey, or be punished. Do you desire to be punished?"
Irina shrank. Maurice had power over her, though he had gained it through deception.
"I need a freshly killed body. Go and get me one."
"You want me to kill someone? Why not give it to Raft?"
"Raft can damage the body and I would have to do a lot of sewing up. Drain enough of her to make her weak and then smother her. And again, use the spell to block Amos. He must not know."
"But…!"
"Go now, or I will punish you again!"
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"And she did. A girl in the outskirts of town, that Amos had visited a couple of times. Irina did not like it, but she did it."