That sounds like a little bit like an euphemism and he very nearly almost waggles his eyebrows at Vanya: well-acquainted, eh?— but then, blessedly, the other man asks a question instead and we’re spared the moment.

And if Strange sounds even brighter and more eager than usual, with a little bit of fanboyish excitement as he talks about this, please forgive him:

“Only inasmuch as I’ve read about the order, but never met one in-person. They’ve all been rather busy, for obvious reasons,” the entire situation they were being invited to assist with, after all. “They’re death mages who specialise in necromancy and stewarding the spirits attached to dead bodies in the Necropolis, right? Plus trucking with wisps and animated skeletons, human and animal alike?”