KATE

[foreverphantom]

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[sootprints]

[ feels like... smoke! it's slightly warm, but not hot. his hand is now sooty. ]

I suppose that's one of the things those "auditors" would take from us.

You're... "Dante," are you?

[ she also read the passports. ]

[foreverphantom]

[ oh right, usually when you ask someone's name you also give your own in return. this is what happens when you don't interact with new people for like 8 months ]

Yes, that's me.

[sootprints]

What kind of place do you come from?

[foreverphantom]

Do you mean just before this, or originally?

[sootprints]

Originally, I suppose.

[foreverphantom]

Hmm. No fairies, where I came from. Just ghosts. Although plenty ghosts can be fairy-like. I knew one that looked a lot like you, actually.

[sootprints]

Really? What were they like?

[foreverphantom]

Their name was Shadow--yes, original, I know. And they were a literal shadow, of another ghost named Johnny 13. But the shadow was also its own person. It could act as his physical shadow, or it could become its own entity acting on its own. It didn't really talk, and it caused bad luck to everything it touched or fought.

[sootprints]

Interesting. They don't sound exactly like the shadows I know, but... not entirely dissimilar, either.

... Do you often encounter ghosts?

[foreverphantom]

Well. Back where I first came from, yes, all the time. I am a ghost myself, after all.

[sootprints]

... Huh?

[


pokes him to see if he's solid? ]

[foreverphantom]

Well, not right now. Obviously I don't have any of my ghost powers here. And I've...been shoved into a human body. But inside? That's all ghost.

[sootprints]

You have "ghost powers" normally?

[foreverphantom]

[ waves a hand dismissively ] It's just shorthand to mean that I can switch into ghost form whenever I want, and use most ghostly abilities even in human form.

[sootprints]

Does that mean you can separate your spirit from your body at will...?

[ trying to picture this. ]

[foreverphantom]

More like there's two layers to me, and I can turn myself inside out to show the human or the spirit at will.

[sootprints]

[ she was in the middle of trying to imagine it and now she's picturing him turning inside out. thanks!! a puff of smoke rises from her head. ]

That's... wow. I'm not sure how to picture that.

[foreverphantom]

Glowing rings. When they pass over me, the other form is revealed. I'd show you, but, well. [ nerfed. ]

[sootprints]

[ that's better, thank you. ]

Right... I suppose we'll all be without our powers, perhaps for the entire duration of this.

[foreverphantom]

Probably, if this is the state we'll be in for the duration of this. Not even last time was I left this powerless.

Does being a...shadow fairy give you any powers that you don't have access to anymore?

[sootprints]

[ a nod... ]

I can control soot.

... but without any powers, the soot is just a nuisance.

[foreverphantom]

[ nods, that all makes sense to him ]

Is that what the helmet was for?

[sootprints]

...

That was just to help me talk to people who have never seen a faceless person before...