It's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all.

[gunslingersai]

Roland Deschain has to return to his apartment in the Gauche again, as much as he'd rather stay away forever. He needs more clothes and ammo. He's bled through the arm of his shirt, again, and he can't afford for anyone to notice and connect the blood with his face and the face on the TV box

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[chimaerasaurus]

Do you hear that quiet chirping, JD? Do you hear that quiet chirping at the end of this long hall?

Do you hear that whisper calling out a name you can't quite here?

There's something moving, JD. Something moving through the shadows.

Something coming.

FOR YOU.

[sensi_doctor]

JD focuses in on the end of the long hall.

"Ghosty?" He flashes the light wildly around the end of the hall in his shaking hand so its hard to focus in on what just might be moving over there. "Casper?"

JD drops the flashlight.

"I come in peace," he calls, raising his hand and bat into the air. "I just want to make contact, make friends... I-" JD leans down to the ground groping wildly in the dark. "Don't-move-again-until-I-get-my-flashlight- back-please!!!"

[chimaerasaurus]

"What the bloody hell are you talking about?" There is an Abby, holding a Rex, and rubbing her eyes rather irritably. Her feet are visible in the light from the flashlight, at least. Not the rest of her though. "Now I can't see even if you do get the torch."

[sensi_doctor]

JD picks up his flashlight and points it up at her from his position kneeling on the floor.

"You're really solid for a ghost." He stares at Rex. "What's that? In your arms? When you die and become a ghost, do you get a pet dinosaur? Awesome. The book I read didn't mention anything about ghost-pets."

[chimaerasaurus]

She shields her face from the light with one hand. "That is Rex, and do you mind?"

Abby points the beam away from her face. "I'm not dead and neither is he."

[sensi_doctor]

"Rex? What's a Rex? How'd you get him?"

JD smiles, apologetically, and points the light on the ground instead of her face. "Sorry. I just- I was ghost hunting. I thought you might be... a ghost. Guess not."

He doesn't sound all that disappointed. He's not really sure what he would do with a ghost if he found one.

[chimaerasaurus]

"Rex is a Coelurosauravus, and he came through a Rifty-thing back home."

One eyebrow up, a twist of a smile on her face. "Ghost hunting. I wouldn't suggest hunting anything in this tower. You might find it. Or get eaten. Toss up, really."

[sensi_doctor]

"Oh. Wow. He's awesome!"

JD grins and steps closer, although he's not really sure he wants to get too close just yet. He just wants a closer look for now.

"Get- What? Ghosts don't- Why would a ghost eat me? I don't taste good. Believe me. It's salty and not- I mean, I knew there were ghosts here cause my friend, Nate, told me about them, but he didn't mention eating and I think that's kind of a vital aspect of the ghosts! I was hoping to find... y'know, Casper."

[chimaerasaurus]

That gets a grin, at least, because yes. Rex is awesome. "You can pet him if you want. Mind the wings."

"Not by ghosts. By the tower. It happens sometimes, I guess." She scritches Rex's head and looks around, a bit on edge being down in the dark. "Could we... you know, go somewhere that's not here?"