"Yeah, I've been Numbered a long time. Since the network first went live." And, since their not kicking up a fuss over being offered food by a giant bug pleases him, they'll get an actual answer out of him. "I'm called an Undead. Not like I'm a corpse or anything--back where my other guy was, that was their word for...ah...immortal fighting monsters. They called them Undead because they couldn't die."

Not that he sounds proud of that. Far from it; it's more ashamed than anything.