Eric freezes as well when Humpty Dumpty looks up at him He jerks back, unable to fully process what he's seeing.

It's been three years since Humpty Dumpty had jumped in front of Jack's attack to protect him. In that time, Eric had spent countless hours thinking over what that sacrifice had meant to him and if he could forgive everything else Humpty Dumpty had done because of it. He could never really find an answer to that, and now he was right there in front of the man who had caused so much pain in his life once again.

"How...?" he asked, because he couldn't really formulate much more outside of that.

Were they both dead now? Was this Hell? Had Humpty Dumpty finally dragged him into Hell?