Page 9 of Deadly Maiden (Dragons and Darkthings #1)

Kyvin

Though not alive, Kyvin almost feels…something, as he teeters on the edge of a cliff and understands he must detour for miles to descend safely. His target has wandered all over the map since he began walking.

He isn’t supposed to feel the passage of time or wonder at the logic behind his journey, but he’s close to doing this. The gheist supplying him derives from something more powerful than unpurified lost souls. Deep within his somewhat undead brain a Warnite crystal thrums out high-tension gheist in a stream that percolates through his undead body.

It keeps him walking and makes his non-living brain stir a few neurons into functioning enough to steer him in the correct direction.

The stream of gheist is also doing other things to neighboring tissue few could have predicted when he was deposited in his not-quite-a-grave to wait for twenty years to go by.

He turns to march at right angles to the cliff, and his undead brain dribbles out an almost-thought.

Bugger.