Charon took a deep breath and rubbed her hands on her cheeks.  This was going to be way more difficult than she'd anticipated.  She pointed at the pile of ashes in the casket.

"That is you, that is what I did to you, I'm your daughter, do you see what I had to do to stop the rot?"

The wraith looked at the pile of ashes, then looked back at her.

"Why?"

Charon frowned.

"Why what?"

The ghostlike Spade wrinkled his brow as though he didn't understand and tilted his head questioningly.

"Why did you do that?"

Charon smiled.

"Because you could no longer continue to exist in the form you were in.  Your soul had been parted from your living body far too long.  Do you understand what I'm telling you?"

Spades ghostlike image seemed to be pondering this, then the image wavered and was replaced by a slightly older Spade.  Charon raised an eyebrow but waited patiently.

"Oh I understand.  Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you right now?"

Charon grinned.

"Because by name I am the ferryman of the dead, by nature that will one day be my job and one small perk of that is that I can't die, also, I'm the only one who can reunite your soul with your body but I need to know exactly how to do that."

The older looking ghost was immediately suspicious.

"Prove what you say."

Charon took a deep breath and let her breath out slowly, this was going to require the maximum amount of patience on her part.  She removed her motorcycle gloves and put them to one side, closed her eyes and slowed her breathing down until her heartbeat barely existed.  She was then able to step from her own body and touch the old version of Spade.  The space between life and death was deadly quiet, sounds fell with a thud as though they were too heavy for the air, Charon smiled.

"We aren't in the afterlife but between the two, this is something I'm able to do.  I have a foot in both Worlds but I can't be fully in one or the other because otherwise I would be either fully creature or completely dead.  Now I've proved my words, I need to know how to reunite you with your body?"

As she said it, a small kernel of an idea had begun to form, one that made her grin just ever so slightly but she was patient and waited for Spades answer to her question, assuming of course he knew what the answer was.