There would be something you could do for sure! On the real frontier, they need everyone they can get. [After a pause.] Not that either of us are going to be sent to a frontier planet. This is as close as it gets.
If there were ghosts wouldn't you have seen them by now? That means there probably aren't.
[She's trying to be reassuring, but she's unsure if it'll help. Then she looks faintly troubled, faintly embarrassed when he speaks about Skulduggery. The answer is yes, but also... not?
It's probably one of those things where you had to be there at the time to see the humor.]
We speculated on it. It was... just a joke we had. [A way to poke fun at their captor. Nobunaga had always thought Ari gave him too much power in head. Ridiculous ideas like that helped, somehow.]
That's probably for the best, honestly. [Cause Klaus doesn't really want to contend with that stuff.]
I would if I had my powers still, so probably not? Unless they show themselves to like...everyone or whatever.
Oh. [Normally Klaus is on the hilarious joke train, but it's almost certainly the uncomfortable parallels which has made his brain remember that hentai is real.] I guess...uhh...everyone has something.
I guess I don't know how ghosts work, exactly. [She doesn't usually sound so uncertain, but this is an area where Klaus is by far the one with the most expertise. Unfortunately for him.] Maybe you don't have to worry even if there are some, because it's not like you'll want that particular power back.
[His comment on the tentacles just earns a shrug.] Right. I guess it's one of those things where you had to be there. The joke, not the... [Ari shakes her head. Better to drop it there, she decides.]
Yeah. It's just the...'how you died' thing. No one wants to see people all mangled and shit. Who knows what happened here?
[They don't have tentacles, right? Forgive them as they squint even more as if trying to find out of there's hidden tentacles somewhere.] Yeah. Probably.
[That gets him an emphatic nod. She remembers how the ghosts in that mausoleum had looked, and even without that - Ari Tayrey has seen people die violently; she knows how it can look. Nobody wants to see that, for sure.]
Exactly. Even if they can't help it, it's not something you want to see.
[But this is getting a little grim. She's going to make an effort not to fall into that sort of spiral.] You want to see something cool? Not a ghost, word by contract!
[Ari smiles, and then holds up a hand, thumb and fingers apart. She concentrates, and there's a little spark from her hand, before a small arc of electricity starts leaping from one finger to another.]
From that strange liquid. I'm still trying to work out how to do anything useful with it, and to understand how it works, but I hope I will. I've taken a lot of observations. I'm hoping I can make batteries someday! That would help a lot, wouldn't it?
Oh coool. [Klaus holds their hand out and there's just the tiniest bit of water forming in the palm of their hand.] And you already know Nobunaga. So we just need like wind and earth to round us out??? I guess? [The batteries thing does sound useful.] Yeah! Maybe you just gotta practice a lot!
[She laughs.] He suggested nuclear power, but I don't think it's a good idea to let anyone loose with that!
You're right. I'm going to practice, I have a- [is Azula actually a friend? Ari likes her. Close enough.] -friend who already had an ability like that back home, and she helped me to be able to control it. I'm sure I can make it useful somehow.
It doesn't sound like a good idea. [Feels like a problem in the making.]
Oh! Cool! I don't think I know anyone that can do the like...water thing? Or maybe they can and I just don't know. But it'll be great to like be able to fill a bath without the well.
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Date: 2023-07-26 09:47 pm (UTC)If there were ghosts wouldn't you have seen them by now? That means there probably aren't.
[She's trying to be reassuring, but she's unsure if it'll help. Then she looks faintly troubled, faintly embarrassed when he speaks about Skulduggery. The answer is yes, but also... not?
It's probably one of those things where you had to be there at the time to see the humor.]
We speculated on it. It was... just a joke we had. [A way to poke fun at their captor. Nobunaga had always thought Ari gave him too much power in head. Ridiculous ideas like that helped, somehow.]
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Date: 2023-07-27 01:40 am (UTC)I would if I had my powers still, so probably not? Unless they show themselves to like...everyone or whatever.
Oh. [Normally Klaus is on the hilarious joke train, but it's almost certainly the uncomfortable parallels which has made his brain remember that hentai is real.] I guess...uhh...everyone has something.
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Date: 2023-08-07 09:16 pm (UTC)[His comment on the tentacles just earns a shrug.] Right. I guess it's one of those things where you had to be there. The joke, not the... [Ari shakes her head. Better to drop it there, she decides.]
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Date: 2023-08-08 08:31 am (UTC)[They don't have tentacles, right? Forgive them as they squint even more as if trying to find out of there's hidden tentacles somewhere.] Yeah. Probably.
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Date: 2023-08-08 04:46 pm (UTC)Exactly. Even if they can't help it, it's not something you want to see.
[But this is getting a little grim. She's going to make an effort not to fall into that sort of spiral.] You want to see something cool? Not a ghost, word by contract!
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Date: 2023-08-09 05:55 am (UTC)[There's another squint at that.] Yeah. Okay. I think it'd be hard to show me a ghost right now anyway.
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Date: 2023-08-25 10:51 pm (UTC)Isn't that the strangest thing?!
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Date: 2023-08-28 12:12 pm (UTC)You're right. I'm going to practice, I have a- [is Azula actually a friend? Ari likes her. Close enough.] -friend who already had an ability like that back home, and she helped me to be able to control it. I'm sure I can make it useful somehow.
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Date: 2023-08-29 02:12 am (UTC)Oh! Cool! I don't think I know anyone that can do the like...water thing? Or maybe they can and I just don't know. But it'll be great to like be able to fill a bath without the well.
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Date: 2023-08-30 05:14 pm (UTC)I am getting so tired of having to carry water from that well all the time. I'd pay you for instant water services!
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Date: 2023-09-01 02:49 am (UTC)That's fair. I am also tired, but Nobunaga tends to do it for me. Aw! I hope I get stronger, then. I'll fill up your buckets!