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[didorothy]

[Sam Tyler is not daft. Really. Even if he appears on the plane holding a paper out, as if expecting it to disappear. He sets the paper down, staring at it intently, before vanishing off the plane and reappearing to check if it’s still there. It is, and everyone can see it. Next, he tries this with a particularly ugly lamp which (if the clothing doesn’t give it away) certainly tells you exactly which era Sam is stuck in. When he experiments on this with his beloved television, he drags it back home immediately rather than risk losing it. Then he brings along a chair and a radio. He sits on the former, hand over mouth, thinking for a moment. He fiddles with the radio, but only gets the sound of machinery under very fuzzy reception. Finally, he appears empty handed, fingers curled as if he was holding someone’s wrist. Chris, apparently, cannot be dragged onto the astral plane]

Hm.

[Sam immediately flips out his notepad and starts writing things down]

Comments

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

[ Aaaaand this will be Yuyuko, taking a physical form and prodding at the lamp ] What is this creature~? Is it edible?

It even has a tail~. [ As she waggles the electric cord around ]

[didorothy]

No! No, that's a lamp. [takes the cord and shows her the plug] You put this into an electrical outlet, and that makes this [taps the lightbulb] produce light.

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

[ Ommmm~ And suddenly Yuyuko has glowing cheeks. Unfortunately, lightbulbs aren't tasty, so she retreats and stares at it instead. ]

A candle without a flame, then? What strange things will humans come up with next~?

[didorothy]

[stares, because she just ATE IT] Uhm, well... what - what are you, though, if you're not human?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

A ghost~!

[didorothy]

Aren't ghosts dead humans?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's much more to us than that~!

Besides, humans aren't the only creatures with souls~.

[didorothy]

Well, could you tell me about ghosts? We don't, uh, have much information on 'em, where I'm from.

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

That is how it tends to be~! The living are just scared of us, but we're nothing to be frightened of.

I'm the princess of Hakugyokurou, the land of the dead, so I should be able to answer any questions you have~.

[didorothy]

Princess Yuyuko, is it? Well, what, exactly, is a ghost, then?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Correct~!

A ghost is a soul with unfinished business left in the world of the living~. They are bound here by their feelings, their past, or something they did during their living existence. They can't be reincarnated into a new soul until their business is taken care of~!

[didorothy]

What has a soul?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Demons, humans, animals, monsters, ogres, faeries, some plants... Lots of things~!

[didorothy]

Some plants, even?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

There is a demon cherry tree in Hakugyokurou. Of course, it is a bit different from normal plants due to being a demon, but it is still a tree~.

[didorothy]

What's it mean, if a tree's a demon tree?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Hmm~, apparently it was a tree that so many people had visited that it was able to absorb energy and become a demon. Then it started to make people disappear~.

[didorothy]

Not a very nice demon, then. ... are there any nice demons?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

It wasn't, I'd think~! And there are. My best friend is a demon~.

[didorothy]

I'll keep that in mind. What makes a demon a demon?