I prefer asking sensibly to otherwise.

( a dry statement, but she's seen how things work here. the dead who aren't already violent respond better to... what would she say. coaxing? which isn't her strength, until the times where it is. these might be those. )

So let's try. We'll deal with her response from there.

( a grim sort of small smile, and then she walks towards the ghost, holding out both stones as an offering. a murmur harder to hear, and the ghost fumbles at her hand, pats with cold not quite touch, until her fingers curl around the stones themselves, suffusing them slowly with pale ghost light. )