That's practically poetic, Prisoner. Soldat can imagine it vividly, and for a moment they simply do that, picturing and placing themselves there instead of on this cramped claustrophobic train, before blinking back into focus and actually parsing the first part, as well. "I mean. You're not far off. It was a dead world. Only dead people could live there."

They pause, wrinkle their nose, and clarify, "For a very specific definitions of 'live'. You know." They already explained the whole lantern thing. Kind of, anyway.