No lives are expendable.

[ —is what he's thinking. It takes him a moment to realize the question may be more general, and then he does finally look up. ]

I need to know if anything was different. About him. About what you did. Is a powerful spirit with one hand reaching into the physical world enough, or was there something else to explain why there are no reports of this happening before. You cannot have been the first abomination to speak to someone Tranquil.