"You think they could be ghosts?" any and all possibilities should be put forth, but he had heard from Duncan once about a mirror used by elves long ago to communicate. Maybe this was Arlathan, their famed city of legend. "It's-- not... strange. It's like it's embedded there..."

He reached back to articulate but couldn't quite reach. "Only time I've seen metal embedded in flesh is from injury-- this deep, usually death. And I don't remember dying, but maybe...?"