[Billy flinches at that, looking down, shamefaced. He did do that, didn't he. He created so many people... some out of nothing, others from the dead, still others from fiction...]

I don't... think it has. I could make little things- clothes, walls, forcefields, or...

[He frowns, and shakes his head.]

Magic can't make people. Not out of nothing. They don't exist without souls. And magic can't create souls.

[He's living proof of that, isn't he?]