All around town, Friday evening

[fh_beasties]

There were ghosts in the streets of Fandom, so many ghosts, as if the gates of death had opened and set them free.

They were pale and lost, aimlessly wandering, confused and alone.

[ooc: Random ghost encounter post! Just put where you are in the subject of your comment, please, to appease my OCD.]

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Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

It was probable that because she'd been so immersed in her research that could explain why Juli hadn't yet noticed anything out of the ordinary.

Leaving the Perk, coffee in hand, she started heading back to her apartment.

Re: Outside the Perk

[fh_beasties]

There was a pale form, ghosting up beside her, absolutely silent.

Re: Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

Well.

That was new. Juli eyed the form for a moment. "A student?" she hazarded a guess.

Re: Outside the Perk

[fh_beasties]

Perhaps it had once been a student, or a teacher, or a wife or a husband or any number of myriad things. Now it was simply a lost soul, cold and forgotten.

But Juli was warm and the ghost drifted closer, extending one spectral hand to brush it through her.

Re: Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

Juli swallowed hard, a sharp intake of breath, and stumbled, coffee sloshing in her hand. So cold.

She forced herself to move, staggering even, trying to put distance between her and the ghost.

Re: Outside the Perk

[fh_beasties]

So warm. It wanted the warmth, it craved it, and it glided after her, reaching out with both hands to wrap itself around and through that warmth.

Re: Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

She wavered, keeping her feet on pure stubborn will alone, and forcing herself back a step.

"What do you want?" Her coffee sloshed alarmingly.

Re: Outside the Perk

[fh_beasties]

It didn't understand the question, it didn't understand anything except want and need and warmth.

The ghost passed through her once more. Surely Juli wouldn't mind sharing what she had so much of?

Re: Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

Juli most certainly did mind, and even as she wavered and nearly fell, flung her coffee at the ghost.

"Leave me alone!"

Re: Outside the Perk

[fh_beasties]

It went through the ghost, seeing as it was rushing towards Juli now, and it stopped dead. The coffee was was warm, spattering and speckling tiny drops of heat through the ghost and a low, sibilant whisper escaped it.

Re: Outside the Perk

[last_mizrahi]

Juli... was going to take that as her chance to run and, without glancing back, fled, as quickly as she could, before the thing came after her again.