Wei Wuxian leans in when she does, equally conspiratorial; he lets out a small oh of delighted understanding, nodding vigorously in agreement.

"That was what Harrow thought as well -- that I am different because I lived on a thalergetic world, and cannot safely handle thanergy without sheathing it somehow," he says. "It would also not surprise me if channeling thanergy upsets the balance Madam Bar maintains for the dead. But if you are also dead, and can channel it with no trouble, then your theory and Harrow's seems more likely."