"Ahh, that is the rub, isn't it?" he replies with a dramatic sigh, leaning back in his seat, drumming thin fingers on the topmost cover of the book tower to his right. "All evidence of such is left in Yahar'gul, the Unseen Village, where my body was abandoned. And the second time's only witness was the one who'd hacked me apart and ejected my spirit from the Nightmare of Mensis.

"And it is hardly academic to urge someone to believe me on word and anecdote alone. Alas."