Syrlya isn't too disappointed when it doesn't work. He's definitely not the spirit master, and he's generally had the help of others when he's needed to contact them... or dealt with those with enough sense of self to make their own deals.

But he looks up, because a spirit adopting the identity of the dead is something Tyria doesn't experience. Spirits of nature and ghosts were two very different entities, and he raises a brow.

"Really, not a one ever lingers? Can the realm of your dead be reached at all?"