"Down to population: 1," Gideon nods. She knows the birds and the bees. Necromancy isn't the norm for population growth. If that's confusing, eh. The Ninth House is gonna reach that eventually. She doubts Harrow can do the same as God. Even as a saint.
She laughs. "Okay, but how do you know what not to learn?" Gideon asks. "Hard to avoid what you don't know to avoid. Like the opposite of trying not to think about the corpse in the room." That is nearly impossible to accomplish, to avoid particular thoughts. That sets her stomach to churn. It is possible, after all, if one's mad enough and stubborn enough. "There is a war. Not with each other. There's a group that hates necromancers, and the Houses don't like having their people blown up by grenades or whatever. So it's still going. I think someone used a nuclear bomb recently?" She shakes her head, unsure where that idea came from. Something Harrow knows? Something she flipped through while fighting heralds? She was kinda busy at the time and only skimmed files.
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She laughs. "Okay, but how do you know what not to learn?" Gideon asks. "Hard to avoid what you don't know to avoid. Like the opposite of trying not to think about the corpse in the room." That is nearly impossible to accomplish, to avoid particular thoughts. That sets her stomach to churn. It is possible, after all, if one's mad enough and stubborn enough. "There is a war. Not with each other. There's a group that hates necromancers, and the Houses don't like having their people blown up by grenades or whatever. So it's still going. I think someone used a nuclear bomb recently?" She shakes her head, unsure where that idea came from. Something Harrow knows? Something she flipped through while fighting heralds? She was kinda busy at the time and only skimmed files.