“I had wondered about that,” Palamedes admits when Pratt references the ghosts who had returned to the land of the living. Had they fought their way back to permanent sentience? Had they found their bodies and re-inhabited them? Had they been chosen somehow, granted some sort of reprieve? “It’s like they were given a stay of execution,” he says, half to himself. “Where I come from, we call ghosts revenants, The word applies tenfold to these individuals. The Returned. Hm.”

“Have you spoken to any of them? I can’t say I’ve had the opportunity.”