True Love and Necromancy

<p>ONCE UPON A TIME in a squat little cottage with a blue shingled roof at the</p><p>End of the World there lived a necromancer.</p><p>Err-perhaps this is not the best place to begin. He hadn't always been a necromancer</p><p>you see; I worry that if we skip directly to the dramatic bits of this story we'll miss rather</p><p>a lot of context.</p><p>Do you-do you mind?</p><p>I'll imagine you just said No I don't mind at all with an expression of accommodating</p><p>indulgence and wind this story back a few decades so that we might as they say</p><p>begin at the beginning...</p>