[This is, quite literally, one of the worst things that he's heard since he and Ed first deciphered Doctor Marcoh's notes. He can only assume by spirits, she means the dead that she is trying to resurrect using these portals.]

No!

[His reply bursts out of him, passionate and strong.]

You're wrong, you're-- How can you have been through a portal and ever think that performing human transmutation again is a good idea?

[He's usually so much better at expressing himself than this, the words that he's saying seem pathetically inadequate, but he's in so much shock that his mind has frozen numb.]