The Memory Gate, a passage into the afterlife...his ghosts. It seemed that every evil thing he had done was for the ghosts of his kin, both selfless and selfish at the same time.

She wasn't entirely certain how to respond without somehow setting him off. He disliked her giving him advice, and she knew little about the Memory Gate, but there were many paths into the Death Plane, if you knew how to open them.

"I'm sorry," she said finally.