Reply To: The Incense of the Quadrivium’s Mystiques

The inefficiency of the Quadrivium had been obvious from the start, but the solution was becoming clear to Cromwell. First, the witches needed an extended holiday, a sabbatical.   They had become jaded, and unfocused. While they were away, he would put some of his own clerks and auditors in to sort everything out. Before the witches returned, he intended to separate the financial side of the enterprise from the creative side, retaining his own staff for the business side.  The creative spellworkers need never hear another word about profits or sales.

Malove needed a holiday too, but he would need to keep her physical presence to enable him to use it.   Perhaps once he had his own staff in place and had made arrangements for them to communicate directly with him, he could dispense with the body of Malove and send her away too.