"Maybe. I wish I could've asked him but it never came up." And now he might never get the chance.

Hm. Not the most opportune time for a severe bout of melancholia to settle in.

"Lack of powers, lack of actual ghosts...Definitely not a useful skill in there here and now, at least at the moment. And if we keep coming back it's not like we're generating ghosts either, so, I guess, better for both of us that you don't have your thing and I don't have any soul sponges?"