[Fern shakes his head hard at her question. The answer is a very plain no, he hasn't actually seen the Lich's hand with his own two eyes, but when it comes to the Lich that doesn't mean much. That jerk's whole thing is being sneaky, and in a big city like this there's probably tons of places where a hand could hide.

But he can see how that might not be very persuasive to someone who's never dealt with him before, and he wants Ange to take him seriously. This is a potentially life-threatening matter, and she deserves to be safe.]

No. No, I haven't seen it, but - I know he's here. [He sounds so, so sure of this.] He's gotta be, he fell through a portal leading out to the multiverse, so there's a Lich out there for every world.