This has led to two basic camps when it comes to magic, the original cold war if you will.The first and larger group call themselves the Necromancers....They get the magic energy needed to fuel their magic by tapping the life energy inside living things directly. Usually in the form of ritualistic sacrifice or flat out murder when used on people. Say what you want about this method, but from a logistics point of view it's quick, easy, and you get a lot of energy out of something when it dies. It. One old and one so-called student. A dark-haired pretty girl. As it happened the 2 I had least hopes for lasted longest. One of the middle-aged women was asked a question in the first round that required a particular city as an answer and she gave a country! Silly cunt! And that was in the easiest round!The other one did survive to the 3rd round but did not seem to understand the banking part of the game and let a large sum of money slip away and so was voted out too. Now we had 4 men against 2. Curtains cover the entrance and all the windows, and there’s a man standing outside who looks a little more like a bouncer than I expected from a house of spiritual enlightenment. Still, he smiles at us warmly as we approach, and ushers us in to see the Bodhisattva Kobutsu without a word. Kobutsu isn’t what I expected at all. I had an image of an ancient man with a white beard longer than my hair wearing a homespun sari, but instead I see a clean-shaven young Indian man wearing a t-shirt and. She was a true professional and ignored the presence of my hands to the very end.As soon as the song ended, I got up and went into the living room. Dad was lying with his eyes closed but opened them when I spoke."How was that Dad?" That was great, son. Fantastic," Dad exclaimed enthusiastically, but I had the sense that he hadn't really heard much of it, that he had dozed off."We're going to do something really different now, Dad, a duet where we both play the whole keyboard, with both hands,.