...I think I've heard of a similar Spirit Gate occurring before--but I wasn't in this world then, so I can only go off what I recall of secondhand accounts. However, what you guess wouldn't surprise me.

[If the staring or the question bothered him, he was excellent at hiding it. Mostly because it didn't and he didn't care.] It has the incredibly special function of 'lets me walk in a straight line', but there's a couple tricks to it here and there. [Waver flipped it around, clicking a switch in the handle to reveal a short hidden blade at the tip.] Not that it helped much, as you can tell by the fact that I'm here.