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[hellescapee]

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[pharadyne]

Sounds as if he needs to learn to take the answer "no" a little more gracefully. Maybe learn courtship techniques that don't involve trapping people.

[He bites his lip in thought for a moment and then continues.]

Sorry if this question is indelicate, but can a ghost even...do that? What the Cat King wants from you? What I mean is, I'm trying to assess what kind of threat he might be, which is hard to do since sometimes people don't seem like a threat until suddenly they are, but it could be a good-ish sign that he didn't really do whatever he liked with you, but I don't know if that was restraint on his part or because you'd just phase through the floor and vanish or something like that.

[hellescapee]

Can I-- [Technically speaking, Edwin knows that he shouldn't be able to blush, but his body is a reflection of his memory and his will and he remembers what embarrassment feels like enough for his cheeks to colour.]

I've never thought about it, if you must know. From a purely theoretical standpoint, then it would be possible, however ghosts don't really feel things like you do.

[To illustrate his point, he reaches out to pick up the teacup.]

I can interact with it, but it's only pressure. I cannot feel the heat, or the texture of the china. If I were to drink it, it would be like sand.

[He sets the cup down again and straightens it.]

But I could phase through the floor and leave. I doubt very much that the Cat King will have power to keep a warden in place here.

[pharadyne]

I understand. It sounds similar to being a pharadyne projection. Nothing quite feels the same when you don't strictly speaking have a body to feel it with.

Something to consider, to prepare yourself for, at some point or another, the Barge might change that temporarily. A flood or a breach. Some dimensional hiccup or another will turn you alive for a week. Or into a platypus for a week. You never know with these things.

[hellescapee]

Have you been a platypus?

[THAT JUST SEEMS INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC. Turning into animal without warning seemed like it would be unsettling regardless of the kind.]

And these situations... you're saying they're always only a week?

[pharadyne]

No, I've never been a platypus. Or seen a platypus, come to think of it. Just making a rhetorical point about the odd things Barge interdimensional travel does sometimes. I wouldn't say the situations are always a week, since every once in a while odd blips happen, but most of the time they come in predictable cycles and most of the time last for exactly one week.