To read what they were responding to head over to Uncanny Magazine and read Seanan McGuire's Ye Highlands, Ye Lowlands and Kat Howard's The Sound of Salt and Sea.

Thing 1: What would you say if the dead came visiting?

Thing 2: Hello?

Thing 2 gets blasted by a cloud of noise and sTUFF. Thing 2 looks ragged and blasted by the experience for the rest of the comic.

Thing 1: I think hello might be different for a ghost

Thing 2 (very small letters): I guess it would be polite to say goodbye now

Thing 1: ... maybe very quietly 

Thing 2:  in our minds

Thing 1: in our minds very quietly

The Things look up, a little nervously.