Lily Crozier

And so it doesn't matter which side of the world you're looking at, like the Korean Comfort Women in Japan, which Sen would probably, Sen as a half-Japanese person, would also be very mindful of.

Sen's family also were in internment camps in America, Sen's half-Japanese, so it was her mother's, sorry, their mother's side.

And so there was lots of little touch points of these quite intense

experiences in World War II that inspired Scent to have a look at it through a fantasy lens.

Yes, yeah.

link with body autonomy and necromancy until you said that just now.

Because for me, memories, like, we are our memories.

That's such an important part of who we are.

And so for, I suppose, her own loss of memories that, spoiler territory, that some of it, some of it is a reclamation of self, and some of it is forced upon her.

And

it feels like such a deep violation that we couldn't really experience because I say couldn't really, like there's a possibility that there's going to be a, I'm thinking of the right magic and I can't think of it now, like a magic person with Emery magic that's going to come into the room.

And that mystery that she didn't know who did it to her.

Yes, yes, it's horrendous.

And, yeah, you can see the metaphors coming to light there as we talk about it.

But yeah, for me, the necromancy stuff actually didn't clock there.

It was kind of I think because there's so many horrible things happening on the page to people who are alive.

The bodies, you don't really get a sense that like there's any sort of soul in them like they are just bodies.

That's how I perceived it.

Within reason.

Yeah, I think very well.