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btw if anyone has any quotes they’d like to add to this, lmk! I gave a spreadsheet with them all that I’m happy to link people to if you want to add to it.
@revenance_ink rip. I’m sure i saw someone the other day talk about alternate ways to get around it so maybe i’ll look into it when i get a chance! or otherwise just. manually throw one in here when i feel like it hahhaha
Unseen but not unknown. She was quite familiar with it by now. She saw it every time she closed her eyes. It looked like Isabel planting ghostgrass in front of waypoints. Its name was not today. Its name was regret.
Unseen but not unknown. She was quite familiar with it by now. She saw it every time she closed her eyes. It looked like Isabel planting ghostgrass in front of waypoints. Its name was not today. Its name was regret.
"It’s hard to explain."
"Imagine my surprise."
"It’s almost like when I read her memories. Except it’s not."
"That was… overwhelmingly informative."
"Thank you."
"I’m afraid you’re going to have to walk me through the process of helping you find a bus," 22 says. "It is not what you might call my area of expertise." "I believe it," I say. 22 tilts his head half a degree, like he’s receiving a message from the mothership.
The rest of the shelf followed after. Then the next. From wall to wall she went, tiptoeing over shards of glass and clay, calmly, methodically knocking every jar down as the ghost sat at the table, chin on gloved fist, and watched.
There was even a list, worn and soiled from the hands of countless Archivists, of questions one was supposed to ask a ghost, if a ghost was ever found who could reply. Name of specimen. Age of specimen. Description of surrounding environment during specimen’s lifetime.
On the off chance that there was a ghost wandering around down there, she didn’t want it spilling out onto four slag-for-brains squatting in the trampled thorns with their eyes scrunched shut like little kids playing seek-and-find.
"You remind me a little of someone I used to know," it said. "Long ago."
"This ghost of yours, you mean?" Wasp asked. "Foster?"
It said nothing. "So she was—"
"Stubborn?" The ghost’s gaze slid over her, down the path, toward nothing Wasp could see. "Breathtakingly"
"I didn’t know you could read," she said. She was cringing before she’d fully finished the sentence. "That didn’t—I mean—because you’re—look, forget it," she finished lamely.