Day walkers? What a peculiar term. Jay wants to latch on and ask questions, but the Initiate's interest is too flattering to let go easily. It's not often someone decides to listen to him, after all.

"Well ... in a manner of speaking," he says, carefully. He's not sure he's interpreted the Initiate's metaphor correctly. "I'm nowhere near skilled enough to return someone intact. No one I'm aware of is."

Raimut had certainly tried. Jay has some very vivid and unpleasant memories of trying to determine how sentient freshly risen corpses were. God, but that was a mess.

"I'm afraid I'm not in a state to teach others how to do it, darling," he adds, hurriedly. "I am but an apprentice."