"I don't know if dying is the right word?"

Because while he's encountered it before, it is still something new.

"It stops being you, if that helps. Mine did. It just sort of, went back to the water it came from."

Unhelpful, but there are so many things these days he cannot control. The Zhou Zishu snarls something at them, and Wen Kexing feels a pang deep in his chest to know it might be something his believes. "Don't listen to it, either way. It's wrong."