So When Sleep Just Won't Come

[ninehundredlives]

[Well, that sure did happen.

Logan is dead, and for once the rest of the students were all there to bear witness. After that, does anybody really want to lie alone in their dark bedrooms all night?

Of course not. That's why people are gathering in the dining hall. It's still dark, but the room is lit with a hastily-assembled host of candles, mostly forming a protective half-circle around the far corner of the room. There's also at least one garbage-can fire, courtesy of Sukuyo. Will that be enough to keep the shadows at bay? Only one way to find out...

There's pillows and blankets too, but try not to fall asleep out here. Keep an eye out for any neighbors who might be nodding off too. That would be against the rules, and there's been more than enough punishment for one night.]

Comments

[perpend]

Even if it was something he could do, it's been made clear that whatever powers people have were taken away-- either by the Conductor or someone else.

[ninehundredlives]

Unless you're Dio, apparently.

[Susan thinks that surviving as a disembodied head launching itself around by its arteries kinda counts as some kind of something.]

[perpend]

....I'll be honest, I don't know what the hell that was or how it was possible, either.

[HE WAS A FLOATING HEAD, JESUS CHRIST HE'S SCARRED FOR LIFE]

[ninehundredlives]

I assumed it was some sort of vampire thing?

[You have to stake them or something, right?]

[perpend]

Possibly.

Maybe it was....

[ugh, is he seriously saying this]

....Biological, like Kaneki's situation.

[zomgboom]

[throws a folded note at Cabanela's head.

it's relevant, she swears.]

[perpend]

[Ow.

But let's see here.

He'll open it without looking too conspicuous.]

[zomgboom]

dio was unexpected/malfunction (?)

conductor has friend behind glass

[perpend]

[Well that's interesting.

He looks up briefly, just long enough to make eye contact with Tabby and nod.

They'll talk more later, when the entire group isn't around.]

[forcegalactic]

But how else can you explain it? Only time I've ever seen people come back to life after dyin' of fatal wounds was because of my Force Galactic. Which is a power. Which none of us have, apparently.

...We got ghosts here; there mighta been somethin' happenin' while he was passin' over.

[perpend]

.....

Maybe he was just too stubborn to die.

[forcegalactic]

How's that even possible? Once your body's done, you're dead.

[perpend]

...I've seen it happen before.

Though it wasn't anything like Logan miraculously coming back to life.

[ninehundredlives]

If it was something to do with ghosts, one of them could probably tell us later.

[Susan leans forward, apparently interested in the conversation. It's totally not a cover for slipping Cabanela a note.]

[perpend]

[He gives a little laugh.]

Maybe so!

[He'll just take that note, thanks.

Let's take a look at it all secretly.]

[ninehundredlives]

What I do is very much like what Logan did

Don't think it's the same - no scars, takes me longer

Will answer questions if you have them, would rather everyone didn't know. Don't want to test if it still works.


[Cabanela's the only person she's mentioned her multiple deaths to at all. There's a reason for that. Still, she won't keep information about this to herself, if it could be of any use...]

[perpend]

[Now that's interesting.]

I suppose we could always hold another seance. Even if it's just to ask Logan what the hell he was thinking.

[That gives him time to write something back and send it her way.]

[ninehundredlives]

We'd better wait until day. We're all safer from the shadow then. Besides, I'm sure if it were night, he'd just be off fighting it while everyone else used the board.

[Let's just open that up and read it surreptitiously. God, it's like they're back in primary school...]

[ninehundredlives]

...I know this is...a nasty sort of thing to say, but...

If his ghost somehow went back into his body, would that really heal him? Bring him back to life? Or would it just sort of...

[Susan makes a vague gesture. Meat puppet. She's talking about a ghost possessing a bloody dead meat puppet.]

[perpend]

I'm preeeetty sure it would be like controlling a.... well. You know.

But I could be wrong.

[forcegalactic]

N-no, I don't think it works like that. Unless you count a ghost and a soul as the same thing, but then you have the issue of bodily damage, and...well, I never saw that happen, so I don't know how that would turn out.

[perpend]

Why wouldn't a ghost and a soul be considered the same thing?

After all, ghosts are capable of controlling other people.

[Cabanela, you don't know for sure that can happen here.]

[forcegalactic]

......

[Sigh. He needs to stop questioning ghost theories. He's already been proven wrong once when it turned out they are real.]

Does that happen often where you're from?

[perpend]

I don't know if it happens often.

But I know it happens.

[forcegalactic]

But do they control dead bodies, or just the minds of people? That's a mighty powerful difference, if you want to think of how it would technically work.

Because for the former, it's like hauntin' that spirit board we got. And the latter, you can convince someone alive to do whatever you want.