How is he doing that? She watches where he steps like she can copy him, but her steps are nowhere near as light and she quickly goes back to finding the best way for herself.

That is, until he offers his hand, and she takes it gently with a small half-smile half-grimace to his reply.

"Got a theory, about where the Dead came from back home." And he probably knows this, because she's thinking about it, but she says it out loud anyway. "I think it's human nature. How we lost our connections with each other. How... every evil thing that we were doing to ourselves all blew back on us."