[ Ben gives a wry, tight little smile when she jokes about thinking he looks good for a dead guy. He knows it makes people nervous. Death. The ghost thing. Him talking about things in his life that objectively are pretty awful. So he doesn't begrudge her a little joke or two, and when she says it sounds lonely he just gives a rolling kind of a shrug. It is so obvious that it was horrifically, unimaginably lonely that it's not even worth a 'yes', right? ]
We can if you want to.
[ And he looks at her, dark eyes open, curious. He knows that his time as a ghost can raise some existential questions for people. He'd been through this with Patch. So if Ami needs a minute to recover, needs to ask him things, he's willing to help if he can. But it's clear from his tone that any conversation will be for her benefit alone. He'd had a lot of years to deal with the whole situation. ]
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We can if you want to.
[ And he looks at her, dark eyes open, curious. He knows that his time as a ghost can raise some existential questions for people. He'd been through this with Patch. So if Ami needs a minute to recover, needs to ask him things, he's willing to help if he can. But it's clear from his tone that any conversation will be for her benefit alone. He'd had a lot of years to deal with the whole situation. ]