A time of death was called, a body was buried six feet underneath the ground, and people may or may not have mourned over their passing, yet they weren't gone. Not completely. They weren't quiet dead, but they clearly weren't alive either. Those apparitions were merely Echoes of their former lives. They existed because a part of their souls were still attached to their hearts beating in someone else's chest. So now that he had her heart, what was he supposed to do with it?