Wouldn't call 'em that, no. Most monsters know how to laugh at a joke instead of just tryin' to take a bite of ya.

[Missing something, they say. He's not sure what they really mean by that at first. Something as opposed to someone.

It's like missing a phantom limb. Like the tingle of an injury that doesn't exist. Such injuries don't exactly hurt in the conventional sense. It's in the nature of psychological injury to have no insight unto itself. Funny how that works.]

Wouldn't be talkin' about my dear bro, wouldja?