It's not real—not the way the two of them are—and Silas straightens up and walks through the ghostly blood mage, not so much to prove it as to make sure she isn't in the way, because his limited knowledge of Ser Harimann, he's remembering now, includes limited knowledge of the fact that the fellow isn't entirely all right at the best of times.

"It might've been here before," he says, "but it isn't anymore."