"I don't expect I can go back, not like this." Maybe it's easier for him to remember he's dead, though. Most of the others haven't been marked by Beacon the way he has been. If faced with too much sunlight, would he, too, disperse into gemstones?

"But because I know the world eaters are out there, I want to stay and figure out how to kill the one here. If we can do that, we can try and send the solution out to those stars and their worlds. Help everyone up there fight back against them before every world turns dark. We can save more than just Beacon."