Gyges's list of possibilities was daunting, but Miach had expected no less. Or to be more accurate, his fear had made him imagine as much, at least. As it was though, the man offered hints about solutions too, and that was all that was needed at this point to keep up hope. It wasn't enough to keep the Acanthus from looking a shade paler, but at least he was still standing erect.
"I see..." the doctor said, nodding slowly. "First, let me thank you for all this illuminating advice. What you suspect, and what you know are two vastly different things..." and sometimes ignorance is bliss.
"So, locations, and people, eh ?
I have kept my Sanctum to myself so far, and will keep on doing so, after your warning. As for people, as you have guessed, I cannot keep from meeting them. That's my job to patch them up, after all. But you say that a Warlock could - without harm to my social ties -" he said with a nod of appreciation for the precision to Avis "sever them every so often, thus increasing my odds against Sympathetic magic.
That sounds like a decent counter-measure indeed." the next question was obvious, then.
"Then, of course, who can do that that I would trust ? And for which price ? Is it hard to learn ?" of course, if Jonokuchi could, that would be great. That man Gyges might be able to, of course, but he was still very much an unknown quantity at this point, and the Acanthus was wary of those.
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