[He gives up on the face discussion. Dusk wins.]

I don't know how it is for Noon and the other weirdo [weirdo said fondly] but I'm not going to contract to anyone who isn't very willing to accept I have no idea how to terminate a contract.

I know I'm not the same thing as they are. But we're similar. Ghosts of the past who need the living to keep us "real" in the present, I guess, as far as I can tell.

You can't expect ghosts to be that great at staying alive.

[It's a joke.]