Quote Originally Posted by Aquillion View Post
I think you people are waaaay too eager to leap towards "this entire story we're seeing is a lie" or "this is just an illusion" or explanations like that.
This comic has a lot of rule breaking, lying, and unreliable narrator worked into it. It's a delicious thing.

When confronted by an apparent impossibility - someone we and the protagonist have seen killed - hanging out and advising her, there are a number of possible explanations, including trickery. Since we arrived at the same conclusion, you needn't have taken out your soapbox.