He always assumed she was an old hand at the ghost thing. Comparing her and Aradia talent-wise is night and day, so her husband being deceased? Not a surprise. Old age conquers everyone at some point or another. The husband is not surprising. The son a bit moreso, but there's always something. Illness, accidents, bad luck, prey.

He doesn't ask.

So it's only at the spooky comment does he turn back around. There's none of the usual 'I'm sorry for your loss' or 'why didn't you tell me' or 'at least you're still here' that most people snap off. They're trite appeasements. A sad facsimile of empathy, because people think that by saying how much they care, it means they actually do.

Her expression isn't brought up either.

"What? Like flowers appearing from nowhere? Or a woman standing in your peripherals and gone when you turn? Sounds like a classic ghost story."