It was nice to have some quiet time, his rather overpaid guards off doing whatever it was they did out in the woods. Mikhail didn't really care and he was glad to use the time to look over his notes. He had several vials of very interesting new blood to send out to his father as soon as they reached civilization.
His arm though...
Mikhail's delicate fingers lightly felt along the shoulder. It was newish, so it hadn't started t rot, but it was only a matter of time. He couldn't seem to keep up the connection. If there was more time, he would have gone and talked to the Necromancer's of Thanatos, but the blood gathering outweighed his own vanity and comfort.
He pulled out a vial, studying it in the light. He had been working on and testing a new combination. He was trying to make it so he could combine water and lightening and use it to devastating effects. A number of experiments in the woods hadn't gone well. He could get one or the other and once he managed both magics, but not together.
He must be using the wrong creatures. He needed to try that nymphs blood, see if that worked. Flipping open his notebook, he made some notes there, totally absorbed in his work.