[VOICE]

[cassie_of_troy]

So...this is Tartarus.

I knew I would end up here someday.

[Cassandra sighs heavily]

Or, perhaps it's just the town and these terrors will go away, the same as always, when we leave. There no need for panic.

Comments

[Voice]

[canisorption]

[The voice is a woman. Ordinarily that would keep him from even saying anything, but...there's distance when the talking's through machines.

But there's the self-convincing in your voice, the lambent terror.

It takes him a while to comment, and put the words out there.]

And if they don't?

[It's not even that he means to be so curt, or so insensitive. He's not good with people. In his way, he's suggesting a backup plan. Possibly one with bell, book, and bullet. But it's pretty hard to know that when being confronted like that by a stranger. Especially one with this sort of abruptness.]

[Voice]

[cassie_of_troy]

Then I suppose we learn to live with them.

[Voice]

[canisorption]

...

[He considers that, in the silence. It's not a bad point...

But not quite his style.]

Or...you bare your teeth.

[The fact other people can see these things too means they're probably not a hallucination, if nothing else. That's something to think about, for him.]

[VOICE]

[cassie_of_troy]

...I guess? But they're ghosts. I don't think they're going to scare easily. What are you going to do? Kill them?