Raine was always a proponent of more knowledge, regardless of her doubt of the subject. "By a sacrifice, do you mean simply energy or something a bit more permanent?" She kept up her work, not looking up despite the multitude of questions he was raising. "And when you say raising the dead, how do you mean it? An echo of what was once, or a true resurrection?"

For some kind of context on exactly why she was pressing that angle, she added, "Shadows are darkness, and I know of enough mages who have a talent for them, but death is generally considered incontrovertible. There." She had been moving along steadily all the while, and now she pulled the last in the row free. Sutures discarded, she set her tools aside and reached for her staff.