No, you will. [ The reply is straightforward. Not insistent, not argumentative, just a simple statement of a fact. ] It's just the refining process. You'll tell me that much.

[ Why is he so confident? Because that's how he is. ]

I'll tell you what I've been working on, too. There aren't many corpses here to experiment with but there's lots of ghosts, and other materials too. I've already found some things that work differently in this place.