"Come grab one of the metal platters in here," Soldat calls, translating what bit of that they caught. "They want to see it." Turning to scrape the chopped veggies into another dish to bake, they add, "I think. Maybe the ones who stayed away. Who didn't participate in all the. The resets. The killing. I think they kept more of their memories of being alive."

It's their theory, anyway. Because some of those spirits were old. Those memories were from before the light went away. And it's been made clear, now, that the more killing the spirits do, the closer to the green-eyes and to the world eaters they get. (Yes. I know, Asset. I know.)