"It was kind of similar, then, but..." Cliff thought about it. "Was their Ka actually in the golems?" He figured Atem meant something different than the House, here. "Because that usually wasn't the way it worked, with mine. Though sometimes I could see through their eyes, but that was a bit more challenging to do."

Cliff chuckled and nodded. "Well, I liked school, and this is entirely different, so no, I actually don't mind much at all!" Which was probably a good thing. Nobody liked a sulky or sullen person, unless the mood was fleeting.

He quirked an eye at Atem, then. "Your kingdom?" It could mean a lot of things, sure, but there was something proprietary about the man's pronunciation. "Were you a ruler, then?" Blame the fact that Cliff is the son of a pair of them. Not that he seems like he's about to make a big deal out of it, it's more curiosity.

"A spellcasting guild. I bet that was useful! Though I bet that it was also a lot like herding cats," he chuckled. "Mostly impossible, and annoying to the cats."