["it was a while ago" rings false to Jan's highly attuned bullshit detector. she's pretty sure that none of the ghosts she's met before have been really okay with being dead, and some of them had been dead for hundreds of years. well, that's the definition of being a ghost, isn't it...? resisting death for long enough to stay without moving on.

it's high on her list of things not to insist Lu Li talk about right now, though.]

...if I look again, there's a human shape under the metal skin. I might be able to see more if I look closer. Do you want me to?