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[Storm clouds are gathering over a part of the city again. The dead walk.

Saul, alive and looking well, is a short way away from the doors of the warehouse where he met his end, two weeks past, not standing, but kneeling, head bowed and hands together. Praying softly in his own language, a rising and falling murmur. The words are unintelligible, but full of intent.

As he rises to his feet, a wind sweeps up around him. Nothing of his power has been lessened by death, it seems.]

Make this a first sacrifice.

[The lightning bolt punches clean through the roof of the building, smashing it to pieces and shattering every window. Soon a fire is burning. In some hours, the place where he died would be nothing but ash and ruins.

Saul nods to himself, in profound satisfaction. He salutes the pyre.]

Praise spirits, land and gods. I am alive.

[The feed clicks on to a view blurred by heavy rain. In the not-so-far background towers the wall of the Inner City. The figure that peers down at the PCD, shaking the device, is at first shadowed and difficult to make out. A few hard taps later, however, the view clears.

Saul grins at the camera. It's a bit of a shaky grin - he looks exhausted, underfed and somewhat battered, generally the worse for wear. But there's a scary sort of light in those eyes. He looks very pleased with himself.]

Ah - still working. Good, good.

[He chuckles very softly, glancing back at the wall, then again at the device.]

Well, then - doma Bao. I'll be seeing you, I believe.

[That said, Saul's hand drops to his side, affording a brief view of him standing, braced against a building wall, head tilted back and eyes and mouth open to the rain, before he starts moving - slow and stiff but purposeful - and the feed switches off.]

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