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[tasteforpoison]

[It's Yelena, here with a quick question. She has a somewhat harried look about her, and she doesn't look like she's slept well with the bags under her eyes, but it doesn't make her any less alert.

That might be because of the coffee-like drink she's enjoying at one of the cafes in the Wood sector, but it's not what she's here to talk about.]

Just to be sure, no one has noticed any ghosts of people who aren't from Keeliai, right? That is, spirits of people who are definitely from their worlds instead of here, for instance?

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[tasteforpoison]

Are you a magician then? Do you know how to banish them as well as talk to them?

[video]

[dadissues]

What, no! Well, I mean...sort of? Like...okay fine, I mean, the point with ghosts is like, they have something left over in the world, like, unfinished business? And the point is to just figure out what they want! There was this one back home...it was a little kid, and when he was alive he was really sick, but he always wanted to go to the amusement park. So when he died his...spirit I guess, went there and he was just waiting for someone to play with him.

So...if you just figure out what they want, they'll go away.

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

And what if what they want is to bother those still among the living?

[video]

[dadissues]

Well, that's a stupid reason to stick around, isn't it? They probably just bother people cause most people can't hear them when they talk.

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

Or they just enjoy tormenting others.

[video]

[dadissues]

In that case, I think you gotta exercise--I mean, exorcise them.

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

How did people do that back in your world?

[video]

[dadissues]

Uhhhhh...by reciting Bible verses, I guess. [No really, he has no idea.]

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

Bible verses? Is there a book I can find somewhere?

[Yeeeup there's no Jesus in Ixia.]

[video]

[dadissues]

Wait, you've never heard of the Bible?

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

[More things Yelena doesn't know about.]

The world you're from, you call it Earth don't you?

[video]

[dadissues]

Yeah. Oh, I guess that explains it. Uh, the Bible's like a holy book for this one religion back home. Arias would use it to recite verses to exorcise d--uh, ghosts.

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

[He gets her point quickly, and Yelena nods.]

So is it like magic then?

[SOUNDS LIKE MAGIC.]

[video]

[dadissues]

Well, yeah! Magic!

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

[Magic. Everywhere. She doesn't seem nearly as enthusiastic about this as he does.]

So they're spells?

[video]

[dadissues]

Uh...not really. I think it's more to do with faith. Ghosts don't like hearing Bible verses because...I dunno, they're outside of "God's realm" or something like that?

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

[Okay, not magic, religion. Which. Well. If there was religion in Ixia once upon a time, she doesn't know about it.]

Oh. So if someone didn't have faith then it really wouldn't work, would it?

[video]

[dadissues]

Uh, I dunno. I think it's just the words themselves. Every type of demon has a specific phrase. Like a kill phrase, I think.

[Sure said demon instead of ghost there.]

[video]

[tasteforpoison]

Every type of demon?

[Sure did catch that.]