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Your gut instinct tells you the best move here is to talk to the ghost. Because it doesn’t matter how much anyone can tell you that’s energy or whatever, that looks like a living being! And you should be able to communicate with it!
“Let’s try to talk to it.” You suggest.
“Should I stay put?” Kobashi hasn’t twitched a muscle after the location of the specter was revealed. You nod out of instinct.
“Talk to it?” Fiora is interested, but she doesn’t know if it can be accomplished. “You think it’s another medium?”
“Another medium? You mean a person?” You ask.
“Yes, mother told me that there’s a long-lost technique called ‘Spiritual Projection’ that only a handful of our ancestors were capable of practicing.” Fiora has great interest in this topic. “They channeled their spiritual energy outside the body and formed a strong wisp called ‘Will-o-the-Wisp’ or ‘Ignis Fatuus’ to move freely around the world without their bodies. The risks are too unsurmountable to even consider using it. And, ohm, I think it’s the only type of spiritual energy that can be communicated with.”
“It can’t be an actual ghost?” You wonder why it can’t be only a powerful spirit.
“Ooohm… Is that something they taught you in your temple?” Fiora’s books don’t have any pointers for this.
“You don’t have to be a spiritualist to believe in ghosts, y’know? You saw one just now.” You raise an eyebrow. “I’ve seen a spiritualist that looks like that anyway.”
“Ohm, ohm, ohm, I think you’re right...” Fiora isn’t comfortable with the implication of ghosts existing. You wonder how anyone can dissociate all this spiritual nonsense from ghosts. Don’t those things go hand and hand?
“Don’t worry, we got this.” You try to sound reassuring.
“Yes. Yes, we do.” Kobashi raises his thumb to give the little girl some confidence. “Now what?”