六 [voice post]

[xiujiang]

[static before River comes closer to the device - ]

- the gorram hell?

Stupid kids. Get off my lawn. Get out of my gorram ship.

Ghosts. Ghosts know more than you, than me, and they hide in the corners and under our beds and when the time is right -

they snag us.

Comments

Voice;

[brandedjustice]

[All that comes through is a loud, drawn out sigh.]

[voice]

[xiujiang]

Keep them away. Don't let them out from under.

Voice;

[brandedjustice]

I'm going to try.

[xiujiang]

Yessir, Captain. The captain takes care of his ship of course.

[revivingruin]

This place isn't theirs any longer. Not some pitiful ghost's.

[xiujiang]

Stupid little boy! Can't you see them they're all around us

waiting for us to make a mistake!

They're just waiting. Waiting for them.

[revivingruin]

Unlike you, I have nothing to fear from death. Or whatever tests these stupid things may throw at me.

[xiujiang]

Death.

death there are worse things than death out there on the edge

[ voice ]

[gintsune]

Y'wanna know somethin' interestin'?

[xiujiang]

....

who are you?

[ voice ]

[gintsune]

A ghost.

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[xiujiang]

[cicumae]

-- ghosts?

[xiujiang]

Didn't you hear them?

[cicumae]

Ghosts, I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with. Are you alright, Miss?

[xiujiang]

she can't be fine when she can't sleep!

[skyblinded]

Ghosts?

[xiujiang]

is there an echo in here?

[skyblinded]

... Right. Where did you see them?

[xiujiang]

They were under the covers.