[He's covering his face in embarrassment, even unseen; this hasn't gotten any easier. At least the talk helps get his mind -- hopefully both their minds -- off the urge to swim out into the dark water.]

I'm not a ghost, I'm a seraph. You're close, though; it's probably easiest to think of me as some kind of spirit. I don't know why humans don't see seraphim, but that's how things are.

My name's Mikleo. And I'm...a little more to the right of where you're looking, if that matters?