[good question.]

Malus Thorne has been trapped in that place for more than a century, and the higher undead have a way of catalyzing into some purer and more awful version of whatever they were in life.

…Even so. I would not say my order is far from what he is.

[though less “like you” is not how she’d answer. can she really claim to be that different? apparently mizu thinks she is and that’s rather nice.]