>"Rude? Well.... it went into a tree of its own accord. A fence probably doesn't bother it. ...I hope."
>"Do you have sensors for anything else? Radio, EM, I don't know... If something as mundane as a video camera can pick it up, it's possible it's visible to something else, too."
>"Lemme get the geiger counter and the metal detector," says Maribel, as she hands the camera to Renko.
>"Wish we had the presence of mind to have used these around that cat," says Renko. "Oh well, what we got is pretty good. Too bad we won't be able to share it, what with Utsuho's ghosts and all."
>Maribel approaches you, holding out a large, boxy thing which you assume is a Geiger counter. "Nope, nothing," she says. "Just normal radiation here." She then switches to a wand-style metal detector, and waves it around you. You don't hear anything. "Nope...damn." says Maribel. "This sucks, it's right there, just kinda hiding in plain sight."
>"So, I'm thinking about this camera thing," says Parsee. "I think there's something about these ghosts that fool the brain, but can't fool stuff that doesn't have a brain, like cameras."
>"Makes sense," says Maribel.
>"That doesn't make any sense at all!" says Renko. "Do they give off brain denial waves or something?"
>"Maybe," says Marible, looking at back at Renko. "You're expecting ghosts to work just like that?"
>"Yeah," says Renko. "They're still part of the world."
>If nothing else, it seems they aren't so afraid of you anymore.
> "When you two got to the tree there was still residual warmth, right?"
> Turn to Parsee.
> "Give me a hug and tell me if I seem abnormally warm. We've been holding hands all night, so nothing weird is going to happen."
>"Nope, it felt like a normal tree," says Renko.
>"...What?" says Parsee. "Goddamnit, fine. You better get me a good gift."
>She walks toward you, and wraps you up in a sudden, fairly fierce hug. "No, you feel pretty normal," says Parsee, before she lets go.
>"You could have just felt her forehead," says Renko.
>"...Shut up." says Parsee, turning away. "Did those ghosts do anything to me?"
>"Nope," says Renko. "Didn't seen to care at all."
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