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[absentsymmetry]

No no no no no. She can't be here. She can't! She's... She's... She's going to try to kill me again! Why is she here? I completed the ritual! Why can't it all just go away?

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[gredn0tforge]

Come on, now- chin up. What's all this business 'bout rituals?

[absentsymmetry]

[oh god, panic mode] I-It's nothing!

[gredn0tforge]

[orly now :|] Can't be nothing, else you wouldn't've mentioned it.

[absentsymmetry]

I-It was just... A ceremony they made me perform.

[gredn0tforge]

Ah, right, then. Always funny, those ceremonies.

[absentsymmetry]

Not... Not really.

[gredn0tforge]

Don't s'pose you're up for explaining why, are you?

[absentsymmetry]

[Sorry, George, Mio just looks ready to cry again]

[gredn0tforge]

[May possibly look taken aback for abouuuut... a third of a second.]

No reason to get all teary over it- only a question, really. Jus' have to hunt 'im down myself, is all.

[absentsymmetry]

[Mio is silent for a moment, and then George gets a hug for that]

[gredn0tforge]

[To which you get a slight widening of the grin, as he ponders the many effects of various pranks on said person he is supposedly hunting down.]

Right- best be off, then. You wouldn't happen to have a description, would you? Makes it a tad easier, 'less I go 'round asking everyone which rituals they've been performing on this fine afternoon.

[absentsymmetry]

Well, t-they're not... Exactly alive.

[gredn0tforge]

Ah, monsters, then. That complicates things just a tad. S'pose it all depends on what type o' monster they are. [Counts things off on his fingers] We can scratch trolls, goblins, banshees-- maybe not banshees, actually...

[absentsymmetry]

T-they're not monsters. They're ghosts.

[gredn0tforge]

Ah, ghosts. Should've just said so in the first place. Not much to worry about, ghosts. Just float on by- can't even jinx 'em properly.

[absentsymmetry]

[She's trying to figure out if he's making fun of her or not, and thus looks slightly annoyed]