[It's never an easy thing to explain to new people- the whole resurrection shtick. What's worse, after everything that happened with Ramona, he's not even sure if it's going to remain true here. With her gone, so did go coming back from the dead. He's still worried they might have broken that forever. ]

There was someone in that world... the first Sleeper. She... had a way to bring us back, it was magic- and complicated. Like...being reborn. When we died, our bodies turned into this strange purple ash. When we resurrected, that ash reformed into our bodies. It...came as a price though, and that price got steeper and steeper each time we came back.