Mantis is far from offended. It's an odd thing for most people to hear, and he can imagine why someone would want to know a little more about the process. His status as deceased had become a constant, and he rarely thought back on what it had felt like to be alive.

"It's not as glamorous or profound as you might hope. I lost consciousness before I died fully and woke up to a medium who was stronger than me in every respect that I knew of." He's a touch too old to be as impressed or as frightened as he had been at first, but there is a weariness when he talks. "I knew I was dead because I was face to face with a man who had died about sixty years before I did and hadn't been remotely close to my body since."