He nodded once. It wasn't that he didn't wish to explain it, it was that didn't know how to explain it without generating more questions. He wasn't alive in the same sense and so to say he was dead was the better choice. It wasn't a lie, just not the entire story. "Yes. I was nothing more than an empty shell dwelling on the surface without beginning or end. I had no pulse, no life of my own, to explain more would cause you grief."

It was odd, he was willing to explain himself to a stranger but somehow he felt a familiar pull to this boy. He was reminded of Noel and that meant something. At least it had for Caius. With each step he took toward the unknown paths in the city, marked one more step on a journey that he had hoped would bring him peace. Such things were fleeting, and he knew it.