[A pause, as he studies her again. He never really stopped.]

Where are you from? As far as I know, the ah... dead don't inhabit my universe. Though I had been compiling my own hypotheses for reanimating the dead. Tricky business. The flesh doesn't stabilize well, even with the most current technology at my disposal.

[Wait. What did he hear and just now realize she said?]

Magic. I was told such energies exist here.

[He doesn't sound as if he's a believer.]