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[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Why wasn't I invited to the play in the haunted house? Everyone knows that the real demons stay in the shadows on All Hallows' Eve, but I should have been invited to the party. It's good manners.

The dead walk with us every day. Bloody feet and pumpkins that scream to the moon. We used to ring the bells to chase their souls out of purgatory. Mother would bake cakes, but we never asked where they went. If the Lord loved them so much, he shouldn't have made them wait.

... did you find any ghosts? Or did the ghosts find you? They only talk to those who remember to listen, but there so many now that I forget. I never used to forget.

The stars are getting brighter. Close your eyes before they burn away.

Comments

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

It wasn't all that terrifying.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Then they can't have been proper ghosts.

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

Not the ones I know of. Although those type would simply bore you to death.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Tell me about your ghosts.

[It was an order, not a request, but her voice was light enough to make the line unclear.]

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

They drone on and on about being miserable and dead. Who wants to hear that?

So very dull.

[makewayforroze.livejournal.com]

It's wasn't very fun so I don't think you missed very much.

[antibadstuff.livejournal.com]

And yet somehow I still ending up kicking someone around every Halloween. You guys really have to get this whole "day off" thing settled on.

[tenminutes]

I didn't get to go either! Uhg, everyone sounds like they had a lot of fun too.

I guess the dead people weren't looking for more dead people. [ She's talking about herself, of course. ]

[namereturning.livejournal.com]

Less than I thought I would, considering it was a haunted house...

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

It isn't miserable.

They weren't killed by the right people.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

I'd have made it exciting.

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

I don't think they were all murdered.

What do you know about such things, a pretty lady like yourself?

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

I was talking about real demons. The fresh meat hasn't had time to learn the rules.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

They should. We know how the world works.

[As was Drusilla. She tilted her head to look at the new face on the screen, curious.]

[antibadstuff.livejournal.com]

So you guys don't have an Evil 101 workshop you can go to?

[tenminutes]

We? You too?

I'm Yuri Nakamura! Some people call me Yurippe, it's pretty stupid but if you want to call me that too, that's fine.

[makewayforroze.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you missed it then. It may come back next year.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

What about other monsters?

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm Drusilla.

You're all ... sweet. Like a little doll.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

I learned from Daddy. The others make it up as they play.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

I'll be waiting.

[namereturning.livejournal.com]

We stayed in the first room, so...

[tenminutes]

Hmm... You're the first person to ever call me sweet, I think.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Are you a coward?

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm the sort of monster the ghosts tell stories about.