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[antecedent]

George Kardos has opened communication!

All right, I need you to sound off so I know who you are and if you're not a ghost. Getting annoying mixing the two up after this long.

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[tactical_alert]

Gavin Stark has opened communication!

A ghost? Do ghosts have solid forms now? I'd always assumed they were translucent and walked through walls and the like.

[antecedent]

Ghosts always have, most people are just too blind or ignorant to see them. Normally can't touch them unless they want you to while they have the energy to pull it off. In this place, I can touch them like they're alive. It's different.

[tactical_alert]

You...hail from a very strange place, then. Would you only take our word, then, that we aren't ghosts?

[antecedent]

Grew up in a circus. [This really explains everything.] Might hit you with my cane first to see if you come after me or not. If you do, not a ghost.

[tactical_alert]

You grew up in a circus that has solid ghosts? Are you sure it wasn't a haunted house?

[antecedent]

No, my mum was the medium. Dealt more with unicorns and creatures that couldn't pass as humans. Met the ghost afterwards. Knew him when he was alive too.

[tactical_alert]

[Definitely not sure if serious now.] I see.

Has anyone struck you as a ghost thusfar in the cave or the city?

[antecedent]

Nearly everyone I've seen since coming into the city has been a ghost. Only person I see often that's alive is my husband.

[tactical_alert]

So most of us are just ghosts. What a refreshing, pleasant thought.

[antecedent]

I'm seeing hundreds of people when I go out, not the small handful I know that came here from the cave. All of them are unaware of my existence until I touch them and then they bolt off through the nearest wall. So don't you dare be a condescending prick to me, boy, or I will shove my prosthetic foot up your arse.

[tactical_alert]

How was I to know you were seeing the ghosts of the previous inhabitants? You're the one asking us, who clearly don't see any ghosts, if we are. At least now I'm certain you're serious about what you say.

[antecedent]

What else am I going to see ghosts of?