Oh yes, very tough, very scary, Valdis is very intimidated. She eyes Darcy, evaluating a bit more as the girl explains.

"Well, I assure you that I am very much alive and I am not interested in interfering with the ghostly dead."

Besides the things she kills stay dead and don't linger as ghosts, because they are broken down into pure energy and consumed, but she's not telling Darcy that.

"How does one form a pact with a spirit?"