"If it's any consolation, you are by far the most animate stiff I've ever met," he quipped as he watched the drinks refill and sipped at his.

"Something crucial. Hm. I wonder if this is punishment. Trap me with sexy hetero men so that I can learn to have more than a five minute conversation. Or maybe I'm dead. Die young and leave an attractive corpse?" he asked as he raised his glass to give a morbid toast to that concept.