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[eusarca]

There was an abnormal machine in Golden Ward today. With a futuristic touch panel to interact with and a strange title over the top of it — ARE YOU ALIVE? — it was certainly eyecatching, but only one person seemed to be interacting with it so far. That person was the one to dream it up for a very specific purpose, and was now putting their hand on it a third time.

ALIVE, the result read, and a small burst of confetti shot out of the machine's top. Again.

"It still says I'm alive. Do you think I can trust it?" Kyrie asked the one teenager that had gotten remotely close to the thing.

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[eusarca]

"Yes but no," they answered him very helpfully. Taking a step back from the machine, they tapped their lip with a fingertip and stared down at the concrete. "I'm not sure what the difference would be. I mean, it's been like five years since I was alive normally? I was a plant and part moth for a while, but that was more of a whole third and fourth thing I've been, rather than going back to the way I was before..."

They didn't look like the alraune or moth versions of themself. They looked like they always did back when they were attending college; the appearance they took on again after death.

"I guess I'm just afraid that since I made this thing show up, I also might be making it lie to me," Kyrie admitted. "But it would be nice if it was true!"

        he watched them, curious, for several moments as the person pressed their hand to the panel yet again, the confetti the result summoned fluttering to the ground to join the piles that were already there. danny wasn't really sure what had attracted him to the machine, and the person using it—the sign? his ghost sense misting from his mouth? the strange aura that seemed to surround it? he wasn't sure, but either way it didn't seem quite right to interrupt the person in front of it.

     well. not until they asked him a question.

    ❝ I'm not sure if I'm qualified to answer that. ❞ in more ways than one, danny thought as he shrugged. but they didn't need to know that. ❝ Do you feel alive? ❞