[He raises an eyebrow beneath the mask as Fandaniel's attempt to pat him simply end up dispersing his body like some hologram cast on fog. It will reform the moment the Ascian stops his antics, as firm and real as it always was.]

You can be dead and alive both at the same time when you are like we are.

[Douman's voice is almost a soft purr, a whisper that's only not hoarse because there is no real excitement in it. Undead-types of ayakashi are simply those whose orgins are connected to the dead rather than the living to him. It doesn't really matter if you're a zombie, a ghost, a curse moving a thing or a collective of souls that found their new home in a bundle of bones.]

Does that sort of drama attract you? Do you sometimes miss your original body?