"Yeah? This isn't any afterlife as far as I know. I was alive last I checked. ... Barely, but I was. And people here are as alive as you can get." He's not going to get into the nonsense that is tethers, because he doesn't understand it himself. "Some people here are dead, but for the most part? Alive."

They've been on missions together? Or... whatever the hell is going on in Emporio's world. He's never gotten the full story because he's never wanted to push. Either way, he's watching Jolene as closely as she's watching him.