1st Adventure

[forever_cheery]

[Action1 : 921 Bilko Blvd. Waking up is awfully strange, especially when you don't sleep. Aurora Belle sits up in the bed for a few moments, blinking in confusion. Everything around her was solid, as well. Was this some new fancy house in the Afterlife? They certainly never had pajamas before there. Or sleeping people

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Action 2

[ooeeooahah]

[ Ilsa finds her in the park by following the glow of OMG HAPPY, and arrives just in time to hear the plan to climb a tree. ]

How long has it been since you went climbing?

[ No, she's not pinging that Aurora is a ghost, just that she hasn't been human recently. ]

[ooeeooahah]

Not a problem, hon. It takes a lot of us some time to get used to things... and then you get a package that brings a part of yourself back, and it's even odds if you have to get used to being the way you were or not.

[ Ilsa helps Aurora dust herself off. ]

I'm Ilsa Higa, by the way.

[forever_cheery]

So, are you not human either? Or is that a rude thing to ask?

A package? Really? How do they do something like that?

Oh, I'm Aurora Belle Jenkins. Nice to meet you. And thanks for your help.

[ooeeooahah]

Some people might want to wait a while to say if they're something other, but you just have to take each case as they come. The way some people regain things that they had, or even were, is getting it in the mail.

[forever_cheery]

The mail? What... oh, like a delivery? Wow, that's weird. How do you mail something like that?

[ooeeooahah]

[ She shrugs. ] So far, I've received engraved note cards, and then get slammed with a new ability. Physical objects usually just get shipped parcel post, I think.

[forever_cheery]

Hmm. So they can turn me into a ghost again? Oh no, but that means people won't see me anymore!

[ooeeooahah]

Some of us might be able. [ Ilsa shrugs ] Don't know if you would be the same as the others I've met. My grandparents said it was hard for them to appear to people who weren't family.

[forever_cheery]

Oh, so you can? That's really rare, you know! A lot of kids can, but they grow out of it, I think.

[ooeeooahah]

My grandparents died ten years before I was born, but I grew up with them being a part of the family. Maybe that's why I can see the ones that aren't hiding.

[forever_cheery]

How fascinating! That they stayed on Earth like that for so long... Some ghosts choose that, though, if they're lucky enough to find their loved ones, I think.

[ooeeooahah]

There's a few that have been around for longer in the area around my hometown, but some are there because they are guardians, [ she smiles and wrinkles her nose, ] and some stick around just out of sheer meanness.

[forever_cheery]

[She snickers.] I know some who are like that. One of my friends is always threatening to become a poltergeist or something, but he's too much of a scardy-cat for that.

[ooeeooahah]

Yeah, you have to not flinch to be that noisy.

[ She tilts her head. ]

Have you eaten yet today?

[forever_cheery]

Oh, no, I haven't eaten at all yet. And I mean at all! Oh, oh, where can I get food in this town?

[ooeeooahah]

C'mon, we'll go over to the Achewood Bakery for a snack. It's quiet enough we can talk, and the pastries aren't too bad, just bland. Might be best for your first food in decades?