[Oh, goodness. By the end of all that, one could assume that Vengeous would have found death by punching infinitely preferable to whatever in the world being 'eaten alive by necromancy' actually entailed. But, well, they can't all be winners indeed...
Skulduggery's answer to the rest earns a pensive tip of Jade's head in turn, though, humor fading a bit again. Difficulty with destroying such powerful items would be an understandable enough thing by itself...but still, the implications that there remain intentions to use the things for some other occasion at some point in the future--it strikes a very mildly sore chord, somewhere far away in the back of thought. Detached enough that the disapproval hardly shows on Jade's features, at least, but all the same...ah, perhaps it'll always be a bit of an aggravating thing. (How many times had he fervently wished, that he'd tracked down every trace of equipment and documentation of fomicry used on living replicas and erased it all with his own two hands, before anyone anywhere could ever think of using any of it again? Indeed, there will always be people wanting to use unfortunate tools to unfortunate ends, regardless of how well-meaning or justified the intent might be to start--)]
Hmm, that's very unfortunate. The beauracracy and the security, really...though I suppose at least one of those things can't be helped. --Not sure if the security couldn't be improved at least a bit, though. Rather concerning that you've been able to break in multiple times, isn't it? Surely you're not the only person around more clever than they? ...Or perhaps the bar really is that high, and you just so happen to be that talented, in the arts of breaking and entering? [Here, at least, a trace of amusement returning.]
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Skulduggery's answer to the rest earns a pensive tip of Jade's head in turn, though, humor fading a bit again. Difficulty with destroying such powerful items would be an understandable enough thing by itself...but still, the implications that there remain intentions to use the things for some other occasion at some point in the future--it strikes a very mildly sore chord, somewhere far away in the back of thought. Detached enough that the disapproval hardly shows on Jade's features, at least, but all the same...ah, perhaps it'll always be a bit of an aggravating thing. (How many times had he fervently wished, that he'd tracked down every trace of equipment and documentation of fomicry used on living replicas and erased it all with his own two hands, before anyone anywhere could ever think of using any of it again? Indeed, there will always be people wanting to use unfortunate tools to unfortunate ends, regardless of how well-meaning or justified the intent might be to start--)]
Hmm, that's very unfortunate. The beauracracy and the security, really...though I suppose at least one of those things can't be helped. --Not sure if the security couldn't be improved at least a bit, though. Rather concerning that you've been able to break in multiple times, isn't it? Surely you're not the only person around more clever than they? ...Or perhaps the bar really is that high, and you just so happen to be that talented, in the arts of breaking and entering? [Here, at least, a trace of amusement returning.]