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[nevertrustcrows]

The table in front of Lichtenstein is slowly getting covered with chalk dust as he fidgets listlessly with a chalk stick. For a while, he watches the masses go past. Though it soon becomes as monotonous as every day life back home. Best ask a question before he dies of boredom

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[3rdangel]

"I would want to know why my brother.. did certain things. From him, if possible. But since it is not possible, why ask such a question?"

[nevertrustcrows]

"Why isn't it possible?" Lichtenstein looks at the stranger strangely. "Does religion not preach about spirits and ghosts and souls in your world?"

[3rdangel]

She bristles at the mention of 'her world', biting back the first reply that comes to her mind. Her tail, the fur the same color as her hair, wraps tightly around one leg.

Mikoto briefly thinks of the Mist, and other such things. "That doesn't make it possible to converse with someone who is dead. My own experience of such phenomena has shown only what would be categorized as 'poltergeist' activity. The Gaians even used it to power their airships. As for the rest, I find no comfort in superstition."

[nevertrustcrows]

He barely notices the bristling. Instead distracted by the idea of poltergeist activity powering anything. He thinks for a moment before asking, "You don't believe in mediums and seances, then? Aren't they common where you're from?"

[chiron_survivor]

"I would ask them what it's like to be dead," Adia replies. Lichtenstein gets a wary look. She's learned not to treat questions in the Nexus as hypothetical. "And I'd tell them that it isn't over. In the world of the living." She smiles faintly and adds, "Of course I would care. I'd rather speak to a loved one then a stranger."

[nevertrustcrows]

He seems to consider her response, and then nod in agreement. "A reasonable enough thing to ask. What makes you think they wouldn't know that 'it' isn't over?"

[chiron_survivor]

Adia shifts uncomfortably in her seat. "They'd be in the Elysium Fields," she explains. "If you could talk to them, I mean. If the Fields are real. They wouldn't know what was happening in the world of the living." She frowns slightly. "Or they could be in Tartarus, and then they really wouldn't know what was going on above."

[nevertrustcrows]

"Many people believe in an afterlife of sorts, but just as many believe in souls that wander around the Earth. Neither here nor there... You've never heard of anyone talking to them, at the very least?"

[statsraaden]

I think I would speak with people I've known, and ask them how come being dead doesn't prevent them from having conversations with, well, me. They're supposed to be dead, right?

[nevertrustcrows]

"People can speak to the dead. Some can, anyway. It doesn't always turn out well, and it isn't always who they're looking for, but it's possible."

[statsraaden]

Where I'm from, everyone can speak to the dead. They just don't get answers. How do you get dead people to talk to you?

[nevertrustcrows]

"I never said I could," he retorts smartly, because he's a smart alec like that. "But... there are a few ways. Mostly I just use magic to help me. It makes me more likely to speak to someone safely than other people are.