[It had been the ones who hadn't come back the Soldier had wanted to know about. It nods. And it guesses,]

Because we are already dead.

[There's something making their bodies be here and it's probably not actually flesh. Not like anything the Soldier has any experience with: for all there are superheroes and shit on its version of Earth, there's not magic. The Soldier decides it's not going to think about it too hard.]

Do the lanterns disappear and reappear, too?