"No. It's the emotions. Compassion spirits are brought across a lot, but they just flicker here and go back. The want of the healer to help compels them close.

"Desire likes you because you enjoy the sensuous. You like being tempted, because to be tempted, it means someone wants to tempt you." He followed his spine back up, weaving across his vertebra.

"I don't remember the Black City not being there. It didn't bother me. It just... was."