"I noticed. You want to tell me exactly what you said to him to get him to leave?" Shit!"We both turned to face Janey, who never used language like th...at. I raised my eyebrows in an unspoken question to her."You're talking about him, right? Gary?" We nodded. "God, I remember that night, what happened. I must have only been, what, 11? Anyway, she didn't say anything to him, Dad." Nothing?" Nope. Not a word. But we were patching bullet holes in the walls for months. She must have shot a hundred. To truly get rid of a demi, a master would need to sell them or have them put down.While demis are born into slavery and may never escape it, all humans are born free. There are different ways for a human to end up as a slave: They can be forcibly sold into slavery as a severe punishment for crimes they have committed or to cover their debts if they have agreed to such a condition. Some humans may even choose to sell themselves into slavery, although this is very rare. It is not uncommon that. “Uh, you don’t know who that person was, who was going to be resurrected?”The acolyte shrugged. “I didn’t ask. I thought it was an adventurer. Some man in plate mail showed up with a big donation a few days before, asking about whether it’d be possible. But, although the Eternal Order of the All-Father was able to resurrect Hannah, one of the assistant priests and myself, the old hierophant and the other assistant were not released by the gods. Only the hierophant possessed enough faith and. "Watch the arm Jim....back and forth...back and forth....back and forth." It is so relaxing Jim...so very, very soothing to you, and you can't help feeling very, very good and at ease. Listen to the steady tick, tick, tick of the hand....so calming, so soothing." You are beginning to fall into a profound state of relaxation, and rest, and you can't stop it. You must watch the wonderful pendulum, the constantly moving pendulum....back and forth...back and forth...back and forth." Just focus.