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dagger methods to communicate with us. Though it is kinda cool to think of one of them trolling around on Star Wars fan sites!”
    “Nobody else can control the Esteemed.”
    “Maybe it was acting on its own?”
    “Why would one of the Esteemed do that?”
    “Why do they do anything they do? But that is sort of the point. Someone sent that very specific link to us, knowing we would piece it together. But they have a reason for not going to the full Council yet.”
    “I trust Steve.”
    “But do you trust the people he would tell?”
    I sit on the edge of my bed. “Okay, so an Esteemed, either under orders from someone or on its own volition, sent us the link warning us that Chana Magus may still be alive…or….well…at least still around. It also explains why the entity you encountered the other day seemed ghostly. It wasn’t a Necromancer astrally projecting. It was someone in an astral form. But it doesn’t explain why she didn’t kill you. Assuming this is about more than feeding, but about…revenge, why didn’t she kill you when she had the chance?”
    “My exceptional good looks?”
    “I was thinking your humility.”
    “Could be that,” he smirks. “I don’t know. Maybe I’m too high profile of a target?”
    “She’s killed Justicars. They are high profile targets! You’re...more the equivalent of a Kardashian.”
    “That was just cruel,” says Houston as he folds his arms and leans in the doorway. “But the thing is that nobody knows who the Justicars are. And the Council kept the Justicar deaths secret. So regardless of how powerful they are by reputation, most people don’t know they are gone. People know who I am because of my mom.”
    “That’s it! Your mom! If I’m Chana Magus, the last thing I want to do is tangle with Grande Madame Vivika in the astral plane. Your mother’s ability to interact with the physical world is just as limited as most of the dead, but in the astral plane your mother is still a powerhouse. She may have realized who you were and decided to save that fight for another day.”
    “And considering it was one of the Nine that killed my mom, maybe she sees my mom as a potential ally. Traya went looking for Nihilus to help her destroy the Jedi, after all.”
    “If I was her, I would be looking for powerful allies with a grudge.”
    “We need to talk to my mom.”
    “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
     
     

September 22,
     
    “ I had the biggest crush on Alex Guinness as a girl,” says Nanna. “ Such a shame you kids these days only know him from Star Wars. A marvelous actor. ”
    “ I liked that boy who played Kenobi in the new ones ,” says Mom. “ Honey, what was his name?”
    “Ewan McGregor, Mom.”
    “ I think he did a good job, considering what he had to work with.”
    “ Well, perhaps we should have scheduled a Star Wars movie marathon ,” says Vivika as she shakes her head.
    Mom, please?” says Houston. Vivika sighs dramatically. Mom rolls her eyes.
    It took most of the day for Houston, Eric, and I to finish the summoning circle and get all three of them in one place. The ritual itself was simple enough. The problem is that with everything that has transpired over the last few months, Mom and Nanna really don’t like Vivika very much, and Vivika doesn’t like them. So while all three of them are more than happy to offer help, they just don’t like being in the same room to do it. Which means most of our time was spent coaxing, cajoling, and whining for them all to cooperate.
    By the time we got the three of them to settle in and agree to work together, I was exhausted. And that was before Houston explained his theory involving Chana Magus and fictional Sith Lords.
    “ I have not sensed any significant power presences near the boundaries of the Veil since I have been watching over my son,” says Vivika. “With, of course, the exceptions of Madame Warlock and Madame Magus.”
    “Things have been fairly quiet, considering how