Despite Trahearne's words of reassurance, the Fool's gaze continues to return to the space where the lesser of the two minions had been standing before, as though he can't quite shake the sight of it disintegrating before his eyes. (Perhaps his sensibilities were more sensitive than he wanted to admit.)

"You can venture to the land of the dead, in your world?" This, like many other things, seems a particularly startling mystery to him. His expression is peculiarly vague; a little melancholic, a little bittersweet. "From what little I have known of death in my world, I am not sure that there is truthfully anything that follows the end of life."

He sounds very much as though he speaks from personal experience.