"Held back? No, not at all," Jay says, flashing the Initiate a smile. "There's really more to life than bloodshed, especially when you can do other things. I was very much encouraged in those."

It's not an innuendo. He means the necromancy, but he wants to see if the Initiate will pursue this line of query or if he'll have to find more obvious ways of bragging.

"So. You're dedicated to a god of slaughter? Very strange to see one of your kind wandering around all on his own. Where I'm from, the ritual murderers stick together. Easier to ambush people that way."