The First Mate
But I knew he was ready to intervene, to protect me from the man who had once sought to destroy him
My heart raced with anticipation as I began the incantation, the words echoing through the silence like a whispered secret.
My body warmed, the room grew colder as a lash of wind snuffed out the candles, their grey smoke being pulled to the centre of the pentagram, gathering to form a doorway.
The man I sought was no longer among the living, not because he was dead, but it was harder to summon a wizard from another plane of existence, especially the Death Plane.
At least, that's what the rumours he'd let spread claimed.
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