'She has been dealt with,' Merriman replies, crisp and certain. 'Stripped of the power which made her a witch -- for she was a mortal woman once, and now is mortal once again. But she was a colleague of his, when she was still capable of wielding the power of the Dark that he has at his disposal.'
He lets out a breath, as if to vent his own frustrations. 'I ought to admit that connecting this Aphelise to the incident before us here veers into the realm of speculation and borders on the fantastical. But it may well have direct relation to the sequence of events that brought the Pearl to Milliways, and if the same kind of power is at work here then you have more than the right to know of it.'
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Date: 2006-10-24 08:30 pm (UTC)He lets out a breath, as if to vent his own frustrations. 'I ought to admit that connecting this Aphelise to the incident before us here veers into the realm of speculation and borders on the fantastical. But it may well have direct relation to the sequence of events that brought the Pearl to Milliways, and if the same kind of power is at work here then you have more than the right to know of it.'