"The train brings us back," Soldat explains, pausing to properly look back in Ghost's direction, now. "Whole and healthy. I woke up the next morning in the luggage car." Which they can say a lot more calmly now than they were at the time, because waking up in a dark, enclosed space happens to be one of their many triggers. "Besides, I'm already dead, anyway, technically. What is death to a dead thing."

The last comes out almost wry. It was the mantra of the spirits in Beacon, and they do kind of understand it a little. More than a lot of the still-living people around, anyway.