[Unoffended, Zekarion watches with some grim fascination—it's certainly not every day one gets to witness a ghost, much less one who seems to have found some amusement. Emoting takes more energy than safe, for him to remain so clear? Hm. He tucks the observation into the back of his mind to take apart later, perhaps.

He shakes his head faintly at the dull-toned question; his wording hadn't been adequate, he supposes.]

It's only a hypothetical. A remark on the strangeness of this place.

[Of the people here, he mostly means, but he's polite enough not to say it. But he'd like the other unspoken half of his prior question answered, so he attempts to move past the ghost topic to business that's more practical:]

Did the "worse" you referred to involve any significant danger?