"Which I also get a discount on for being an Academic, right, nice."

"That is right! Though you get double discount on Aethernautics and Runes."

"Anyways, weren't we supposed to be working out Complications?"

"Yes! Volunteer to be the next target for a witch hunter who keeps coming back like the bad penny?"

"Witch hunters are a thing?"

"Alas that yes."

"I take it they're from the Abrahamic sects that don't condone magic?"

"For some reason I have never asked one."

"How're they even a threat if they don't have magic and we do?"

"They have magic swag, and fancy gadgets, and also if you do not have a way to be immune to getting shot in the head when you are sleeping then you will not be immune to getting shot in the head when you are sleeping."

"So like... Yeah this one's probably a bad idea, right?"

"I have seen it took but do not take a lot of followup surveying about it."

"How many points?"

"Eight."

"Ugghhhhh I should really probably say no but eight points is tempting."

"It is your choice to make! Not completely impossible to put him down forever, and then, woo, one fewer witch hunter, so if you think you can take him this is nice for everyone."

"Wait, so there are a finite supply of witch hunters? One isn't, like, created when I pick the complication? If, in theory, the world were to run out, would it no longer be available?"

"Finite supply, awakenings do not make anybody study the blade, complication only available when blades are - not necessarily just if they are all dead but also if they are busy, you will keep yours off somebody else for however long."

"How much protection can I expect from my witch faction?"

"The Hespatians? Depends how much they like you. Lunabella would be a better bet this way, hole up in a safe Domain till you are big and strong and know which end of a wand is up."

"What sort of people do Hespatians like?"

"Depends on the cell, it is presumable."

"Hey hold on a second. Is there an afterlife?"

"Lots! Get good enough at necromancy and score a pocket dimension and you can have your own one. The ones that gods run are bigger and stabler but some ghosties swear by the bespoke."

"If there are lots, what determines which one I go to?"