Valdis didn't believe him. No one just 'snapped out of' being a mass murderer, there was always a catalyst, but she let him have it his way in favor of the new curiosity.

"In that case, how did you become a skeleton?"

There was something odd about the death magic that clung to him, almost as if it wasn't all his own. Part of it had a different something...It was odd, but she couldn't decide why.