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[Lust simply looks tired when she comes on the network. There's a dark skinned, bespectacled man with red eyes behind her, smiling pleasantly.]

Has anyone discovered the reason for these...visitations?

It's not as though it's very disruptive, but...it's a bit unnerving, I suppose. No matter what I do or say, he won't leave.

Or do much of anything else.

[She'd thought perhaps he'd vanish by the second day, but...no. Whatever his name is is still 'haunting' her.]

I think he watched me sleep last night...

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Bad senses of humor?

Or misplaced good intentions.

Pokemon are Pokemon, after all. Sometimes it can be maddening, trying to understand them.

They seemed simple enough to me.

But... looks like I have a lot to figure out. [He pauses.] Maybe if you try capturing it?

They're not. Oh, some of them are, certainly. But they're possessed of a surprising depth of emotion and intelligence, constrained by the differences in our species. So few of them can speak our language...

That...well, it may resolve the immediate problem...

I noticed the personality part. But didn't think they could do something like... 'good intentions, bad choices'. If that makes sense.

Better than nothing, right?

No, I understand. You'll find yourself repeatedly surprised by what they can do.

I suppose it's worth trying.

Can't wait. To be honest, I'm glad to hear they're not just fancy pets.

Good luck with it.

They're hardly pets at all, really. They're our companions in this life.

Oh, you're the one who should be wished luck. I'm not throwing a Pokeball at my dead fiance.

It seems...rude.

That's what a lot of people would say about their pets.

[He would. If he had one. So... maybe he should say it about the Aron.]

...

That's. Your -- [Wait, wait, regain your composure, Shiro.] I'm sorry. I had no idea.

Is it? I never had pets.

Oh, it's fine. I don't remember him.

[Which is probably not fine, but Lust hasn't ever known how to deal with...that entire situation.]

It's...a long story. But it still seems rude.

Well. That's what people tell me.

[People with pets, anyway.]

If you don't remember him... can I ask how you know it's him?

I remember...flashes. Bits and pieces. I have a photograph of him. I knew his brother well - in this life. After I'd forgotten him.

But I don't remember or know enough to tell you much about him, beyond he was intelligent and kind and apparently had poor vision.

[I remember... flashes. Bits and pieces...]

[His expression darkens a moment, and looks away.]

I'm sorry. It's... never easy to know things are there. But you can't get to them.

I won't ask more if you like. It's not really any of my business.

No, it isn't easy. You sound as though you speak from experience.

[And looks it, as well.]

Honestly, it's more complicated and confusing than anything else.

... Yeah. A lot of experience.

[A flicker of a smile. A sympathetic one.]

I hear that too. Sorry someone else has to go through it.

I'm sorry. It seems there are too many of us, who can understand.

It's alright. It is what it is. Usually it's not at the front of my mind, but at the moment...

Here? That's... a common thing here?

[Because it sure wasn't back home. Then again, there were literally six other people on the ship, so.]

Yeah, I can see how it'd be hard to handle, shoved in your face that way.

More common than I would have expected.

Maybe that's what it's all about. Not allowing me to simply...ignore it.

I guess I'm still getting used to being around a lot of people again. Makes sense there'd... be more.

[More amnesia problems, he means.]

That could be. How would these things know something like that, though?

That manner of adjustment can take time. This world isn't what most of us are used to, for better or worse.

Well...there are some that are psychic...

Right, there's no rush, is there?

Psychic?

Psychic. Possessing...mental abilities beyond the normal. The reading of thoughts, moving things with their minds, that sort of thing.

Reading thoughts.

... Maybe that's how these ghosts keep doing this.

It wouldn't surprise me. Though I wish they'd not. It's a bit...invasive.

Though I doubt they understand that.

If they're anything like animals, I don't think privacy really occurs to them.

... or teenagers. Either one doesn't have the greatest sense of personal space.

[That was a joke. A terrible, deadpan joke.]

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