(Untitled)

[bitingmybullet]

Gwen cannot possibly get to sleep in a room that reeks of smoke

Comments

[meet_the_thorn]

Jenny's tucked back in a corner, her tent put away and her sleeping bag spread out.

She's eyeing everyone a bit warily. She does that a lot.

[meet_the_thorn]

"Not," she points out, "that there's really anyone to protest to anymore, or any media to appear in. Or politics. Or, y'know, anything. No, I'm afraid you're doomed. Sorry."

[bass_line_blues]

"Clearly, my only choice is to single-handedly rebuild a working democratic system of government in order to enable you to protest."

[meet_the_thorn]

"Well, let me know when you do," Jenny sighs. "I'll be busy drifting about, or possibly wringing my hands melodramatically. I might even try floating through walls, if the mood strikes."

[bass_line_blues]

Preston considers this.

"Don't let me put a damper in your plans or anything," he says, finally, in tones of great seriousness, "but I'm not sure you can wring your hands as a ghost. Wouldn't they go straight through each other?"

[meet_the_thorn]

"I'm pretty sure ghosts are solid to themselves," Jenny points out. "I mean, they wring their hands and stuff like that all the time. They just can't touch anything else."

[bass_line_blues]

"Must make it hard to walk," Preston decides, looking at the floor.

"I mean, you'd sink."

[meet_the_thorn]

"Ghosts need no physics," Jenny says primly. "We do whatever we like."

[bass_line_blues]

". . . that doesn't sound too bad, actually."

Preston grins, suddenly.

"Think I could sign up?

[meet_the_thorn]

"Well, it's not a matter of signing up so much as dying," she says uncertainly, "but you're welcome to join me, as far as I'm concerned."

[bass_line_blues]

"That is a problem," Preston agrees, sadly.

"If I died, Gwen'd probably kill me. No other bassists."

[meet_the_thorn]

"Unless you kill your bass, too," Jenny points out. "Then it can be a ghost with you. The world's first ever ghost werewolf bass player."

[bass_line_blues]

"If Gwen starts hiring ghosts, though," Preston protests, "just think of all the fucking competition I'll have."

[meet_the_thorn]

"Well, it's not like we see many around, really," Jenny says. "Maybe only special people get to be ghosts."

[bass_line_blues]

A little wistfully: "There's some pretty special great bass musicians of the past out there."

[meet_the_thorn]

"Well, I certainly haven't seen any, yet. But I've only been a ghost a couple hours. They just might not be in Chicago."