we are not always what we seem

He knows Emma is not dead, knows that she is somewhere in her realm happy with her son, but this separation is as final as any death. He will never see her again. She will linger in his thoughts each day but he will never see her again and so she is as good as dead - as lost as Liam, and Milah, and all the names that he carves on his body and soul in remembrance.