Well, maybe it's like us all traveling in groups. And all the bugs and birds and things are also dead... but outside of the river, for our enrichment?

[The notion that they're all traveling in a group instead of one at a time, so as to give the Ferryman a break from their questions and to give them all other things to be doing, is one he's mulled over before. Adding the presence of all the seemingly living things is a new twist, but one he thinks he likes.

But when he checks Celehar's face to see how the idea is going over, he finds that baffled stare instead.]

...Oh, right. You're not the first to... Is it the skeleton thing?