"Well..." Oh, dear. Cricket looks worried. "I mean, I ended up here after I died? Like as an afterlife, I reckon. And I can't go home on account of being dead and buried there. What was left of me, anyway."

He makes a face. "I noticed you was floating, but that don't have to mean 'ghost'. There are witches and gods and whatnot around here, too. Did you die back home?"