"Besides make you want to stand in a sonic for a few hours?" Palamedes deadpans. It's not a very politic thing to say, but it isn't like anyone here is going to go reporting that the Master Warden of the Library is being bitchy about the Eighth House. "Like your Book and Snake, they're quite good at calling revenants, but what they're really interested in is harnessing the power of the soul, and they don't have much time for silly things like ethics." He makes a face. "The word soul is so imprecise. In any case, they're not content to only manipulate dead souls, poor things. What really interests them is harnessing the souls of the living, drawing energy from them and converting it into necromatic power."

"And for what it's worth, I've never met an Eight with any sense of humor whatsoever."