Raafi nods. "Clerics often serve as confidants and advisors, if you think he'd benefit from having someone neutral to talk to."

"I don't know. I would have said he wouldn't trust someone outside the clan, but, well. Things have been different lately, and it might help him to have his questions about the resurrection process answered directly. I can pass on the request."

"I expect to be here for at least another week, if he needs time to think about it, and in and out regularly after that."

He nods. "Thank you."

"Did you have any questions for me?"

He has some about the resurrection process, typical side effects, does it work on children...

Raafi answers them: It's possible to resurrect children, though it results in minor but permanent frailty to do so. Adults get minor to moderate skill loss instead, nothing that can't be fixed by relearning things. It's reasonably common for resurrected people to be traumatized over their deaths, but rare for the resurrection itself to have any other side effects. He doesn't know how it interacts with chakra effects, though; resurrection doesn't remove curses of his world's type but those are less physical than chakra is. (He can remove curses separately, with other magic, in most cases, but again has no idea how that would work on local ones.)

He nods. "I think I'd probably be best to make things more stable first, then, but I'll instruct those in charge of our funerary proceedings to start holding back some aspect of the body from cremation - what works for a resurrection?"

"Anything. Ashes are fine; a lock of hair is a little more common where I'm from."

"We preserve the ashes, and the bones don't burn, so if those work it'd probably be best not to change the process."

"Certainly. Though if I'm around, I can resurrect someone who's been dead for fifteen days or less with a smaller, less expensive spell, as long as the body is basically intact."

"That's sometimes a problem, but we'll keep it in mind."

He nods. "It's preferable when it is possible, at least. And - there's a more powerful resurrection spell that doesn't need a body at all; I don't receive spells that powerful yet, but I do have a scroll that I can use to cast it once, if there's a serious enough need."

"I don't think there's anyone urgent."

"It didn't sound like it," he nods. "Was there anything else?"

He shakes his head. "I'll contact you if Izuna wants to talk."

"I'll let you get back to work, then."

He nods, then: "Thank you. For the help, and the information."

"You're welcome." And he goes.

Hashirama stays briefly to plan a meeting time with Madara, then follows him out.

Raafi hasn't gone far, just to the nearest bench to sit and coo over Tsunade.

She is a very coo-worthy baby!!!

She is! He looks up after a moment, though. "Should I let you get back to work?"

"My clones can still handle everything - mornings are usually a bit slow, though I'll want to have more of an all hands approach after lunch."

"All right. Is there anything else you'd like to do? The gardens were lovely."