[Getting some fresh air while the sun's still up despite the weather, Locke's sitting somewhere relatively dry and watching with interest where the merchants have docked on the shore. (It would be a lie to say part of him wasn't tempted to put his skills to work there. But after seeing the state of the merchants themselves he hadn't had the heart to even try to rob them.) With things on the relatively quiet side for the past few days, there's been a lot more time for him to do some thinking.]

So, when people die here...sometimes they come back.

[A statement of fact, rather than a question. It's pretty hard to miss. People dying only to come back good as new, or close enough. He hadn't experienced it himself, (...not yet, anyway,) but he's been around long enough to see the results. It's a touchy subject by nature, especially for someone like him, and even just from his voice it's easy to tell that he's not quite as casual about it as he's trying to sound.]

Has anyone figured out why yet? Or how, I guess I'm asking. What's making it happen. Is it some kind of magic? 'Cause I don't know about you guys, but things like that don't just happen on their own back home.

[Didn't really happen at all, not outside of the legends he'd been chasing. But he had to believe it was possible. For all the hassle getting dragged here has been, seeing some proof of concept is pretty damn encouraging. He's been looking for a way to revive the dead for years, so when faced with the opportunity, he can't help but ask:]

I don't suppose anyone's seen anything like it before?