The thief "hmm"d noncommittally, because he wasn't so sure he'd have gotten off with basically no lasting harm if Valdis had used Revelations directly on him, as opposed to transferring a wound caused by it after the fact. It wasn't something he was interested in trying, in any case.

"Because I gave it to him. Most parts of it, at least. You've heard Wreath and I talk about how a soul is divided up... I offered most of mine away, because I needed power to defeat the Egyptian God kaa, and Zorc needed a way to take physical form again. That was the deal."