Mysteries upon mysteries... I admit, I didn't expect to face so many intertwined intellectual puzzles. [Or, any, at all. He expected to stop existing, or maybe to resume existing without any memory of the things that led to his death, and maybe more than that.] Why might anyone want to 'sneak something by us', anyway...?

[Not that he expects a clear and specific answer. By now, he's getting the sense that any leading question will get a variety of possible answers. Maybe this Ferrymansan isn't the only one reluctant to give clear answers to the questions facing them all. The skeleton is almost surprised his skull doesn't hurt.]