catch-all for sieghart (he's an oppa in my heart)

[lifeless]

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[lifeless]

[me coming back to this thread and laughing]

...I don't like to admit it, but this isn't my field of expertise. I usually get to talk to the ghost of the person who was murdered.

[instead of having to do it the HUMAN way]

[ercnerd]

Yeah? Do the dead of your dimension retain their memories after death?

[lifeless]

[she waves a hand]

Half and half. Some remember and some remember everything but their deaths. Is it different for you?

[ercnerd]

The Underworld has a process where they extract memories of life from the dead in preparation for reincarnation. It's unusual for anyone to remember anything.

[lifeless]

Oh? That's not so different from how we do it. Do your dead go straight to the Underworld then? They don't wander around the living first?

[ercnerd]

If memory serves me right, they go through the Soul Temple first. Souls don't typically linger in the material world unless someone binds them there.

[lifeless]

[stabs you too jae

she makes a face at the word 'bind' though, wow...]

The souls in my world always linger. That's why I run a hotel to give them a place to stay, at least until they're ready to move on.

[ercnerd]

[Be kind, please.]

Hmm . . . is that really all you do?

[lifeless]

[she gives him a Look,]

What's that supposed to mean? I'll have you know that I'm a very good boss. I run that place perfectly.

[sometimes]

[ercnerd]

I'm not saying that you don't. I just recall that your ID card had more skills than hotel management on it.

[lifeless]

[Manwol looks briefly surprised, because Sieghart is the first person who looked at her ID and had questions.]

...I know it says 'exploiting the bereaved', but that's just an exaggeration.

[immediately thinking of the worst thing on her card]

[ercnerd]

[He has many questions that he can't be bothered to ask. That she immediately jumps to that factoid says a lot, but he merely shrugs one shoulder.]

Everyone's cards are exaggerated to a point. You don't have to defend yourself.

[lifeless]

I'm explaining, not defending. There's a difference.

[is there??? manwol sure seems huffy about it... she's gonna eat this entire piece of bread now,]

[ercnerd]

I suppose there must be, since they're different words.

[Wow, look at her go. He watches her devour the bread with faint amusement.]

So do you exorcise the souls who insist on lingering?

[lifeless]

[she's still huffy!! wow!!]

No. I'm all about healing spirits. We don't exorcise anyone. We don't even get paid if we do.

[why destroy when u can...... help....]

If they need help, then they can come to us. It's not our job to force them.

[ercnerd]

Oh, there it is.

[She's so spicy.]

What kind of help do they go to you for?

[lifeless]

[:/ oppa....]

The usual. Maybe their greatest wish was to get married, so they need someone to officiate a ghost wedding. Or they starved to death, so they want to eat all their favorite things. The dead always have regrets like those.

[ercnerd]

[He loads a few more things onto his plate, staying within earshot of Manwol as he does.]

Our regrets do tend to be shaped by our last moments . . .

[lifeless]

I can't do much for the ones who died an unfair death, or want to haunt their killer though. That kind of justice has to be achieved by the living.

[ercnerd]

Makes sense. The dead and those who manage them shouldn't interfere with the affairs of the living.

[lifeless]

[she gives him an appraising look,]

That's it exactly. [...] What exactly do you do? Do you work with the dead too?

[ercnerd]

Managing the dead is the Haros' job. I'm human.

I'm what you'd call a gladiator on Aernas, but officially I'm known as a knight.