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He nodded again, his blotchy face reddening with fury

It was too risky to stand with hiraveyard, reappearing right in front of Lilith’s grave I pointed down at the etchings on the stone

"Do you know anything about Lilith?" I asked He certainly looked haggard enough to have been around long enough to know at least sorowled

I pointed to Magnus’s name "Do you knoho this person is?"

"Lilith’s loved one, obviously"

"Why is there no death date here?" I asked

"Most likely Lilith only provided us with the birth date and did not knohen he died"

"Could this person have still been alive when Lilith was buried?"

Shamus scoffed "Do you honestly think that an Ancient would have gone against such a basic custom? Of course he must’ve been dead"

"Then how could we have not known the death date? The Council records births and deaths of every single resident of The Sanctuary The inforraves here--"

"Perhaps Magnus did not live in The Sanctuary," Shamus said "Perhaps he lived outside"

"Outside…" I nus wasn’t a warlock?"

Shamus rolled his eyes "You always did strike me as a dimwitted one Of course he must’ve been a warlock Just because he lived outside The Sanctuary doesn’t mean he wasn’t one of us In the Ancients’ time, there were a number of reasons itches and warlocks would be stationed outside" He shook his head in disbelief that I should even ask such a question "It’s considered treasonous even now for a witch to have a relationship with anyone but their own kind, not to speak of in those ti if Shamus’ words were really true