It eats at Malak's mind, but he cannot remember.

Which one does it sound like?

“I hope that acolyte isn’t reanimating, after I put those coins on his eyes according to their cultural expectations. Otherwise we’re going to have to behead every body we come across, and that’s annoying. Also gross. Also sad, what with mutilation of a corpse being frowned upon most places.”

From down here it sounded like a cork popping out and the bottle falling in the back row.
But it's dark way back there so you can't be totally sure.
 

“You’re the door guy, I’m the smashing things guy. Use the daggers to pry the door open, I don’t want to waste my spells on a hunch.”

"Okay, but first I want to see if it's the bottles or an undead," Emral has two hands on his sword as he moves forward.  "Carry the light while I check this out."

He goes to the end of the room, assuming the corpse is reanimated. He tries to get a look through the last rack before he gets there, to see if the body or the bottles are the cause of the noise.

Emral moves slowly toward the back row. A shiver crawls up his spine as he strains to hear again other than the soft share crunch of glass underneath their boots.
When the light from the lantern shines onto the last rack, the shadows fall across the back wall, revealing no standing object behind.
Reassured but still cautious, Emral peers around the rack.
The charred half skeleton bones remain where they fell under the flaming sphere. A sigh of relief.
The half melted and misshapen green bottles next to his head emit an almost imperceptible hiss, the boiling earlier now subsided to a foaming. 
Emral's knowledge of the arcane convinces him that the contents of the green bottles have reacted to the heat of his flaming sphere.

Emral checks the body of the acolyte, still on high alert, to make sure that it’s still inanimate.

If it’s all clear, he continues with the dagger lever from before, and failing that stands back and blows his second flaming sphere on the wooden door, hopefully incinerating the flammable wood. He maintains the spell as long as possible.

It’s not in the last row, on the floor, with two coins on the eyes? If the door to the tunnel is closed, fine. Flaming sphere and then let’s get out of here!

fireinthedust wrote:

It’s not in the last row, on the floor, with two coins on the eyes? If the door to the tunnel is closed, fine. Flaming sphere and then let’s get out of here!

no, you never dragged it out to the cellar.

this from way back the last time you thought the same thing:The body is back in the dome. You brought the ring and the lantern out to show Malak, and he is using the light to search for more secrets in this cellar.  

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