With little else to do, Kovacs follows him to give the illusion that he was going to help. He'd probably just stare if Matt fell again but he hadn't walked away so that was progress, wasn't it?

"Yeah. It doesn't stick though," Kovacs tells him, thinking of Rogue and her death and subsequent resurrection. "Don't ask me how that fucking works. Don't know. But people die. They come back."

Except his sister. Godfuckingdammit. "I wouldn't recommend trying it though. Death still hurts."