"I wasn't meant to die yet."

Forgive him if he sounds cold as well. He doesn't approve of people not approving.

"It has nothing to do with getting over it."

(And the contact with the living is helping him to focus, and the better he focuses the more possible it is to see a tall, dark smudge on the air where he stands.

Just faintly. Just a suggestion. Half the time, if you squint from the wrong angle, not even there. But it's more than there was.)