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

[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.

[perpend]

Dead bodies, living bodies-- don't matter.

[forcegalactic]

So, bodies, then. Not minds. [An important distinction. Possibly. But can't hurt to make sure.] So you'd know if you'd have a ghost possessin' you, if that's the case. And as far as we know, none of our ghosts tried anythin' like that lately.

[perpend]

From what I understand, that's.... not entirely the case.

But I don't quite remember everything that happened right now, either.

[announcemyvictory]

Not entirely the case? Could you explain?

[perpend]

There's-- my ba--

I don't think people who are possessed remember being possessed.

[announcemyvictory]

So you don't think it could've happened to you, then.

[perpend]

Well, I'm not one to discount any theory.

It's entirely possible.