[Of course she doesn't understand. When would she have learned? Even most people in Liem's world did not know how resurrection magics worked, rare as they were. And for Hayame, whose only experience with such things is the shard-bearer's regeneration, of course it would be alien.]

Dee said his spell did not succeed because there was no soul to find, yes? When magic is cast to restore a body, or form a new one, the spell calls the departed soul and beckons it to return.

But it is an open hand, not a snare. Those who have found happiness in the afterlife may choose not to heed the call. I recall such things from my own country.

[Part of the reason for Taldor's civil conflict was because the Grand Prince's only male child had died as a boy, and had not heeded attempts to bring him back. Presumably his pure soul had been content in the celestial realms.]