[ So they're taking it from the top, then. He huffs a breath that is nearly a laugh, sympathetic. ]

I'll back up. Back home, we work with— let's call it 'death energy.' It doesn't just work on the dead. You can use it to work on the body, use it for healing... regrow flesh and bones, that kind of thing. Or take an old dead skeleton and give it instructions, get it up and walking around. Talking to ghosts, that's necromancy too, but proper resurrection is another league entirely.

[ His league, specifically. ]

The ghosts here are weird, locally. I much prefer our home-grown ghosts. At least the skeletons still work the same.