They are good friends. They're very kind. But we're not that close yet. And in my world everyone has magic, but most of it is...

Different. The magic that makes Grimwalkers isn't its own special thing but it's still making something artificial. Out of something dead. In the Boiling Isles that kind of thing, something fake made from something dead...

It's gross. By most people's standards. And there are these legends around Grimwalkers and they're not exactly flattering. Like...ghost stories.

And for my friends here, I just -

[He keeps twiddling his fingers anxiously.]

I don't think it's normal for a lot of them either. I have one friend whose powers involve death, and I don't think it would bother him.

But besides him, I don't know about the others. Even the humans. Luz was okay with it but Luz is incredibly weird. And one thing I learned here is humans have stories about people coming back from the dead. They have an entire genre of horror movies about people rising from the dead and then humans killing them again.

There's also apparently a really famous story about someone bringing an artificial being to life out of dead body parts. I didn't read it but I know they call the being a monster, not the creator.