I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.
You need to check out his body using your super Spidey Otherworld senses.
I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.
You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.
Try asking for Nyx's help." "Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons." "During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?" "Not once," he said "Then how do you know she's not listening to you?
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.