[Something darkens in his gaze for a moment, but it disappears under the fatigue with a blink or two. Hmm. He's not fond of that, nor any of the possibilities that arise with it. He doesn't like it at all.
To distract both himself and this ghost:]
Where I'm from, we tend not to refer to mortality so plainly. It's considered impolite at best.
["I'm so sorry your parents are dead." Can you imagine? How dreadful that would have been, if he'd been so callous.]
In any case, it would have been an assumption. I've gotten the impression there's the possibility of some other semi-permeable being in this place who could still be called alive.
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To distract both himself and this ghost:]
Where I'm from, we tend not to refer to mortality so plainly. It's considered impolite at best.
["I'm so sorry your parents are dead." Can you imagine? How dreadful that would have been, if he'd been so callous.]
In any case, it would have been an assumption. I've gotten the impression there's the possibility of some other semi-permeable being in this place who could still be called alive.