Liliana - Zombie Control + Communication

Liliana’s gaze snapped to him, and the darkness cleared from her eyes. She scowled with a bitterness Jace couldn’t interpret, and then raised a hand. The undead cowered back, releasing Jace’s ankle in the process.

  “They’re barely animals,” she told him, sounding vaguely irritated, “but some recognize the notion of ‘the great winged beast’ that terrifies them. They’ll lead us to him, or at least to the area where they most frequently sense his presence.”

  She was moving before he could so much as ask a question, following a coterie of crawling corpses across the wind-blasted plains.

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 25