He gives her a look. He's not convinced, but she knows a lot more about spirits than he does.

"If you say so," he spits out, more at the spirits themselves really than at her. "I don't trust them. Not after last year. They had no right to invade our bodies like that, Twila or not. Besides. What other spirits are there? I thought the only spirits on this backwater planet were the ones in Luceti."