Willie looked her over in thought. He couldn't always tell when people were ghosts but they became obvious on closer inspection and Xian did not have the same feel as one, but then every world was different in how ghosts acted. "So, you were a ghost before you came here or are you one of the ones that died and then the hotel brought you back?" He asked genuinely because he had heard that that had been a thing.
He was not sure how he felt about that though. Mike was a ghost having died right before the hotel took him but the hotel did not bring him back to life, the Moon lady said she was dead but was not a ghost and then others still had died but were alive. What made the hotel choose which people live-lived?
Taking her question less as her not having listened when he said a few minutes prior how long and more as she had been completely taken by the skateboard- he understood that- Willie laughed. "Uh, 30 to 40 years. I'm not entirely sure because time moves weirdly when you're a ghost. I had a friend that died 25 years prior to them appearing as a ghost, but I don't think I had time in that kind of limbo."