Rune of Sweet Passing

Cost: 15 motes
Target: One living creature

With a mixture of honey, blood and graveyard earth, the necromancer spends an hour painting dozens of bees on her victim's flesh along with the Fettering Sign. These symbols soak in with an insistent drone. Once the painted insects penetrate his skin, the target's spirit is bound to them. They will pull it from him at his death to become a ghost, buzzing in a cloud from his mouth and eyes. Several bees will then fly with supernatural speed to the necromancer, instantly telling her of the subject's passing.

While the victim lives, countermagic can free his soul. Once he dies, nothing.not even the Zenith Caste anima power.can prevent his shade from rising. This spell does not otherwise bind or compel the new ghost. Rune of Sweet Passing and Gentle Call of Lethe are incompatible. A person bound by one spell cannot be bound.or liberated.by the other.