Dan looked over at Alex.  "Beryl?  Shajad?  Have you heard anything like this before?"  He certainly didn't know them at all, so maybe the occult expert did.  "That 'inconvenience,' as you put it, means<em>I have no more life</em>!"  He moved closer to Not-Dan.  "What exactly am I going to do for a job?  For money?  If you are right, and I can't go back to my body, that means I'm going to be missed!  People will notice I'm not where I should be!"  He was not exactly sharing Not-Dan's enthusiasm for the situation, here.