Since I can see that we have kind of similar tastes, can you recommend the Fionavar Tapestry?

A wedding ring shows that you are wed. Just like an engagement ring shows that your engaged. A wedding is an event, being wed is a change in status. The logic is sound. Confusion only enters the mix, because ‘being wed’ is less common as a phrase than ‘being married’.

WTF is helix?

Nice story. Were those just plain zombies, or some other kind of intelligent undead? Because necromancers can raise both types in a fight and this cloud sounds like a raising/converting effect some of those intelligent undead can do. I have absolutely no idea why they were friendly, because they usually are either loyal to the necromancer or just plain agressive against the living.

Also nice that you stayed stubborn on these useless bugbats.