“Ah, speakers to the dead,” Palamedes says with a wry twist of his mouth. All respect to Lady Pent, of course, but he had always found the calling of revenants unnecessarily dramatic. They were awfully unreliable beings, anyway. “…Hell, I had never thought someone might call a revenant for the purposes of military intelligence. And using a corpse? Completely unnecessary. How dreadful. How Eighth.”

Now that he thinks about it, calling up dead soldiers sounds like exactly the sort of tactic the Cohort would employ. Palamedes doesn’t like it one bit.