video; un: yomiko

[blackwaterchild]

[Miu appears lounging sideways on a chair, legs hanging over one arm. She's got some closed nail polish balanced on her stomach and she keeps critically eyeing her nails as she speaks]

Yeah, people are being murdered, but we apparently come back so it's whatever. Explains why there's no ghosts around here, which honestly has led to the soundest sleep I've gotten in years. Can't complain about that.

Anyway the important thing is that with no one here, I haven't been able to get my hair or nails done in way too long. Does anyone know how to do nails?

[She holds out her hand to present her nails for emphasis; her nails have plain nail polish on it and she doesn't look really happy with it. She pulls back and looks down at them herself, heaving a sigh]

This place is so boring... What are you supposed to do for fun here? Aside from murder, apparently. [She rolls her eyes, her tone sarcastic. Gosh, murder, sooo original.]

But important things first: I need my nails done.

Comments

[blackwaterchild]

Most of the ghosts I see look like how they did when they die, so it's not pretty. I don't need that standing over my bed at 3am when I'm just trying to sleep before work.

[She eyes the phone] But like I said, there's none wandering around the graveyards or anything. It's weird. Not that this whole place isn't weird, but to not have any dead is...

[Unnatural. Really weird.]

[cranekin]

I suppose you can't really decide your look when you manifest into the world, hm?

(It's not their fault they probably look like they've been burned or whatever to death...

But hmmm, more interestingly,)

Is it possible that all of the dead have already moved on?

[blackwaterchild]

[She shrugs--what does she know! She's not a ghost!! She's only half, so there.]

Hmm, maybe. But it'd have to be someone pretty powerful to exorcise everyone at once from a town this big. And when we first arrived it was like... [She pauses, trying to figure out how to describe it.]

Like you'd enter a room just knowing people had been in it right before you opened the door. But when you opened it, everyone was gone and it was empty. It's like something wiped everything to a blank slate in a second.

[cranekin]

It wouldn't be unheard of.

(There are certainly powerful exorcists and sages in the past. Though, in more recent times, he's heard that sort of power is more and more rare.

But onto more pressing things,)

Ah, that's quite a way to put it. (He's impressed. He can imagine it clearly.) There were already others here when I arrived but I've felt the same in some places.

(Like some of the apartments he'd poked around in when he arrived.)

It almost makes you wonder if anyone was really there at all... but you can't say for sure, right?

[blackwaterchild]

[Miu shakes her head, crossing her arms over her chest as she thinks]

I haven't found any traces of people, dead or otherwise. This place is just... empty. It's weird and boring. [The worst and most baffling of all combinations]

[cranekin]

Boring?

(Oh, he sounds amused.)

How long have you been here?

(As far as he knows, he only knows of two groups that have arrived so far. )

[blackwaterchild]

Jeez... A month and a half? [Damn, when had she arrived? She didn't have as accurate a way to tell time as she did before, but she figured it about that]

I was with the first group who came in.

[cranekin]

And you're already bored!? I would have thought there would be more to do in such a large city.

(He isn't totally bored yet. He's having plenty of fun still.)

[blackwaterchild]

You see on large city, you've seen them all. Mostly.

[none like this, but that just makes it more boring]

There's not even any karaoke! I can only walk around looking at basically nothing for so long.