Opening the door to Master Damin's bedroom and –
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He's finding it surprisingly hard to translate that.
"Sir, I don't think they have a word for 'mortal'. I think rephrasing will be necessary."
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"Do you age. If you die, are you resurrectable with revivification spells?"
"This drone does not know what a 'human' is. The name for its species is 'remna'. Its Master is of the same species.
Remna do not age. Revivification spells do not exist in Zmavlimu'e, as far as this drone knows." A pause. "Cryonics exists, but there is no method currently devised to revive those put into cryonics."
He knows that the slave is already under Zone of Truth, but his thoughts confirm that he thinks of this as a basic fact of life.
Conrad feels the terror of having walked into something he shouldn't have but suppresses it.