"Still confusin' as all hells, but..." She gives his shoulders a squeeze. "Sure not all bad. I wanted so much to have more time to get to know ye. Outside o' just talkin' to the shade Hades made."

Even the shade, after all, should eventually fade without his creator around. No arcane entity can persist indefinitely without a supply of aether, and the false Amaurot didn't seem to be drawing from the land.