W5, TUESDAY: BELPH AND...?

[gatonina]

[On Tuesday, Belph is accosted by a ghostly friend...

Rules:

1. 10 comments total to this thread.
2. Our ghostly friend will be intangible, see-through, and cannot communicate through verbal or written speech. Enjoy your charades!
3. Once their time is up, our ghostly friend will abruptly disappear. Better be quick.]

Comments

[axilium]

[he watches hikage, confusion written on his face, as the anxiety over hikage's inevitable return to the dead continues to sit in his stomach.

it would be so much better if he could just talk with hikage as if it were any other day—but that, at least, would certainly be an illusion.]

So you don't know what Pink is, but they're more than just residuals and they're... expanding? Growing? Taking over?

[psychedelica]

[ another swift nod as he holds up two fingers. There's more to be said on the matter that he can't say - he'll have to test his luck with the letters, but his luck's been pretty good there thus far. Hikage starts to move, to make a gesture for writing, but he feels the pull immediately as he does - one he recognizes after being tossed around between worlds as much as he has.

So that's all his time, then. Regret sticks in his gut as he realizes he spent it all trying to share information. Is this what he thought would help? He'd rushed in, desperate, and that was the best he could come up with? He'd always been terrible at comforting people, and terrible at comforting Belph, especially, but he'd still shown up here to try. That was why he was here. Not for the game, but for Belph.

"How would you cheer somebody up, then, Hikage-kun?"
"... Fine. Let's see..."

Another moment of hesitation; then, a step forward, a little stiff, and he lifts his hand not to gesture, but to place on Belph's shoulder - it passes through, but the intent is obvious, just like the apologetic, genuine smile on his face visible for a moment before he simply vanishes like he was never there at all. ]

[axilium]

[...

and so, it ends. belph couldn't even say anything that wasn't business. ha—no wonder he's been called cruel. why is it that even hikage is better than him, at least in this moment?

well then.

he knows he should get this info out as soon as possible. he has people to find now. but... for another few moments, he stays rooted to the spot, staring at where hikage had been.]