Outside the fortress, soldiers lay scattered about. They had been washed over by Negative Energy, and though the source was gone, they had yet to recover.
Only Rorschach remained standing among them. He gently set the stiff Richard down. His old classmate looked as if he had been lying in a grave for ages; even after the Necromancer Master had vanished, his undead transformation had not been reversed.
If Richard had adopted a policy of "shut up and don't resist" when facing his teacher, he was spilling the beans now, chattering on and on as he told Rorschach everything that had happened at the fortress.
Finally, lying weakly at the base of a wall, he said, "Tell Bart I'm sorry for not replying to his wedding invitation. Is his bride pretty? Are he and his family doing well?"
