"I have even heard," she confides in Magnus, "that Gideon the Ninth speaks, here. You might finally be able to tell her that knock-knock joke you've been holding on to."

She nods to Wei Wuxian's question. "Yes. Theoretically, a necromancer just on the verge of death would be at their absolutely most powerful...and most useless, of course, as one would only have access to the thanergy bloom for a second or less before succumbing. But being dead, in a place which rewrites the rules so you are almost alive...I have so much research to do!"

She does not look at all put out by this proposition.