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"Well it's been a while since we've had any visitors. Not sure how I feel about that, though." Of course, she had a feeling it wasn't a new arrival. 

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“Emily. And you are…?”

She raised a brow, still uneasy around this rude man.Perhaps she was just wasting her time asking.

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He scowled, “Fine—what’s your name?”

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The girl didn't seem to be dead, but she seemed to move in a spectral manner. Now, Emily should have been used to strange things like this, but she couldn't help but stare, chuckling lightly.

"I suppose a lot of others have gotten lost in this area lately. Perhaps I could help you out,"

"if you could kindly spare the details on where exactly you were before you got lost, that is."

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“Nice to meet you, Emily!” Tinya smiled, floating in the air and occasionally letting things phase through her, “To tell the truth…I was walking, and then I kind of…got lost.”

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Emily chuckles lightly, pleased to receive an introduction as opposed to a blank stare and a stutter or scream.

"Pleased to meet you, Phantom Girl. My name is Emily. What brings you here?"

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“Woah! Hi, I’m Phantom Girl.”

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“I was once a human, but if you want me to be frank, I’m dead now. Can’t exactly put any label on that now, can we?”

How rude, Emily thought, hearing words said with such harshness. She couldn’t bring herself to stoop low with an insult, despite being offended, and instead retorted with the facts as they were.

“Though, I do wish you would ask for my name instead. I do have one, you know.”

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“What the hell are you?”

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"I hope you're not too uncomfortable here- Oh and do watch your steps, a lot of people have lost their heads in their past lives and it's a little difficult keeping track of some that just roll away...!"

She chuckles, treading up old stone steps as a cold breeze blows. She checks back on Vril occasionally, but gets carried away with skipping up steps.

"The stairs are a little uneven, but we'll reach the elder's place soon enough."

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He cringes but nods… Hopefully none of these other undead look worse than she does… At least she still has most of her skin… And not a completely atrocious odor..

“Maybe you should fix the locks on your doors if people keep wandering in…” He glances around one last time, catching glimpse of a few other undead citizens… “Lead the way then, Emily..”

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((Sorry for not getting to this earlier! We went to a pretty desolate island a few days back, and the connection's been a bit iffy since we got back.))

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"I'll stick to calling you Vril, then. Hope you don't mind seeing a few more of the undead on the way back up, though. I'm going to have to bargain with Elder Gutknecht if I'm going to have a second trip upstairs this month."

Emily chuckles.

"Thank goodness you're not the first living thing to stumble down here, else we'd have trouble finding a way to get you back up without a potion."

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“Agreed…” He looks around, unsure of exactly how he got here himself…. If this isn’t just an elaborate dream.. “The sooner I get topside the better. I prefer not to end up like you just yet…”

“My name is Vril. Vril Dox. Coluan.”

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"I don't suppose you know how you got here, then...?"

Emily pulls a side of her veil behind a rotting hear and observes the stranger with utmost curiosity.

"Everything else down here is dead, too. If you aren't, I believe it's best that we try to get you back up... My name is Emily, by the way. May I ask what is yours?"

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“Dead…” He repeats, looking her over. Her exposed ribs and other bones.. Her… Wedding gown…

How odd… 

“I think I’m definitely out of place..”

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"Not quite a ghost, I'm not spectral at all, but I am undead. And you're not intruding at all, dear."

It wasn't too often for Emily to meet someone who was unfazed by death. Her lips curved to a slight, unsure smile.

"...Are you lost?"

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“Hello.” The girl had been knelt down by a weather-beaten statue of an angel, suddenly looking up to see Emily there, in all her gentle, gothic beauty. Strangely enough, the teen didn’t seem all that shaken by her sudden appearance, or by the fact that she was literally the walking dead. “Are you a ghost? Is this your home? I wasn’t intruding, was I?”

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"The stars will always be there, though." Emily speaks in a reassuring tone, giving the little prince a pat on the back. "Like the sun and the moon. The clouds can only block them off for so long."

She stayed quiet as he spoke about his friends, smiling at the mention of the fox and remembering a couple of friends she made in the past. It was pretty much the same situation with her friendship with Victor and Victoria, was it not?

She gave a moment to stare at the unfolded paper, fully aware of its importance, yet unsure what to think of it.

She couldn't help but think too realistically about the situation. After all, she had been around for so long, and as much as she was a child at heart, she could not deny that she was an adult.

"...Perhaps it is too shy?" She questions in a softer tone, only to shake her head and take the statement back. Far too typical, it was the kind of thing an unsure adult would say.

Unfortunately, that was exactly what she was.

It's not just the moon, it's the stars.

“I don’t much like the cities at night. I once met a man who told me that one day, because of those large clouds that the cities have, stars will only be a thing of stories. 

“I hope that never comes true, because there are quite a lot of people who love the stars as much as I do. To take them away would make them very sad,” he sighed.

Grown-ups were very confusing to him, for the man explained to him that it was a part of human progress. What good was human progress if it meant taking away the beauty of which the planet granted you. But that was part of why he was sitting here, in the middle of a frozen woodland, because the stars could shine beautifully without the clouds blocking them out.

“Oh yes, I do have a few good friends on this planet, but none of them have joined me on my travels.

“I could not ask them, it was hard enough for me to leave home, and even now I miss it dearly. But I am looking to find my fox so I am no longer alone. And also-“

He carefully dug his hand inside his jacket and after a bit of rummaging, he found a sheet of folded paper, old and worn, but well taken care of as there were no crinkles or large tears. He unfolded it and showed it to the woman.

“I have my sheep who keeps me company…but..he does not like to leave his box when I’m awake. He never has, really. It’s very upsetting.”

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"Scary? Eerie? Dead...?"

Emily runs through a few words others have used to describe her, stopping with a faint chuckle as she folded up the parts of the telescope, storing it in a dusty old case.

"A lot of the things here are. Would you happen to be out of place...?

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”.. Hello.” Vril blinks, looking her over.

“You… You’re… Um… Hello.��

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Emily glances through her telescope at another new face and chuckles softly.

"Goodness, with all these new people I do hope I get to make some new friends soon!"

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"It's getting quite difficult to keep track of all these new faces."

"..Not that I mind, but..."

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“Oh dear, that’s alright. It’s no more dangerous than touching a leg of roast chicken, also dead, just…”

Emily hops to the limb she left behind, pulling it from the branch it hooked onto and putting it back in place with a soft snap sound.

The stranger seemed like such an interesting person, yet such a strange person as well. Definitely not human, Emily thought. But definitely alive.

“What brings you to a place like this? Only dead trees, dead stars, and dead people around here. Not much for an adventure, you know.”

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Sakura stands by, blinking at the sight. “…Are… Are you okay there?”

Human, with blue-tipped pointed ears, violet hair, a similarly-colored curling tail, and dressed in what can only be described as traveling-adventurer’s clothes, she’s a bit of an odd sight… And completely unsurprised at seeing a skeletal woman in a wedding dress.

In fact, she comes up and points to the missing leg. “Want me to uh, get that for you?” She shows a nervous grin. “Or would touching you make me dead too?”

“Just checking.”

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"...Looks like a lot of new people are showing up. How strange..." Emily mutters to herself as she peers through her telescope.

"A fresh face just earlier today, and now another..."

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"I can't wait to meet the new arriva-"