The little dog takes this moment to give up its sniffling and snorting. With a last huff, he flops sideways across Wysteria's lap. It makes for a respectable filler for the longer pause Wysteria takes to consider Cosima's question, and to construct her answer accordingly.

"I'm not terribly familiar when it comes to bargaining with spirits, but Averesch seemed to think it was at least worth attempting and I believe he is well versed in the sort of practices which see spirits coneyed into objects and corpses and so on. And it's true that there is a period of time after removal from the host in which the anchor seems to maintain its powers. So no, I don't believe it's entirely wishful thinking.

"However,"—there is always a However, isn't there?—"I think it would be rather unpopular with certain institutions who are generally somewhat against lending spirits any measure of power, much less the kind capable of poking holes through the Veil. So I imagine if it were to work that the practice would need to be quite secret."