"Well, I suppose this place acting as some manner of--" what was that word again? Something he'd heard of in his time here, since he'd never paid much mind to such concepts in his own world... "--purgatory, that would be understandable.

"But being brought back from the dead, or even being kept alive longer than one should... It may not be particularly desirable for the one experiencing it."

It's very possible Sion is no longer speaking strictly hypothetically here.