"Hmm, yes," says Combeferre, "you might say the Land of the Dead is our natural place anyway...but I don't want to go there, and I suspect you would even less. It sounds...dull."

"And yes! No different from science, that's precisely what I think. Even if it's a matter of incantations rather than laboratory techniques, the method is the same, the reasoning is the same. We should be able to puzzle it out the same way."