Well, I don't want to be a dictator or...or unfair or something. [Like those are equivalents.]

Oh. I'm sorry. [More gently, because death is terrifying, even if you see is enough to grow accustomed to it.] People say, like -- ghosts? [Koby's a sharp little cookie, making the connections between clues very quickly.] You can talk to the dead?

I don't think you're dumb at all. You're a very good conversationalist.