[ Hi Matt!! The warmth is immediately reflected, as Drizzt politely listens to his opinion. And concerns, at that. ]

It wasn't so bad. Being dead. I died just before I was brought here, and determined that my presence here meant that I was to keep fighting on. I had wondered for a while if this was an afterlife, actually.

[ Not being allowed to go where his companions had made sense to him, in a fatalistic and bittersweet way. ]

But, what you're saying is that we won't just die... our deaths will rob existence itself of something vital?