[That declaration suits Dorian well, and settles the lingering question about his healing. There's nothing more immortal than words on a page, of secrets and stories once they're read by enough people, and the fewer the places any of his own secrets are out on display, the better.]
There's one more thing you need to know, then, for my purposes.
[Purely so Larus takes care around his portrait until he has time to get Grayson over to ward it with his magic.]
In a few days' time a man named Grayson Frost is going to come here to ward the picture in the other room. If you haven't seen it [and he has kept the door shut most of the time and the portrait covered] it's the large one in the other room covered by a sheet.
[A certain sharp seriousness pulls into his features: a flicker of warning.]
Do not move it, touch it, or stand too near to it if it can be at all avoided. It's an item of potent magical power, and beyond being important to me, it is, it can be, and it has, been extremely dangerous in the past.
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There's one more thing you need to know, then, for my purposes.
[Purely so Larus takes care around his portrait until he has time to get Grayson over to ward it with his magic.]
In a few days' time a man named Grayson Frost is going to come here to ward the picture in the other room. If you haven't seen it [and he has kept the door shut most of the time and the portrait covered] it's the large one in the other room covered by a sheet.
[A certain sharp seriousness pulls into his features: a flicker of warning.]
Do not move it, touch it, or stand too near to it if it can be at all avoided. It's an item of potent magical power, and beyond being important to me, it is, it can be, and it has, been extremely dangerous in the past.