To me, "State" means a mindset. He's in a mode, or a mindset of confusion. He's confused. He's in a place where he doesn't know what's going on, if that makes sense. It is a Condition Of Mind
~Deceptiøn
It does... but how about you replace the last line with "they remained the hosts". If you did that, I would say change line 3 to ghosts instead of ghost.
Hope that helps!!
Is there a certain excerpt you're supposed to derive the answer from?