Holiday Ghost Event: Road Less Traveled

[shnpc]

WHO: Everyone, affected and not
TONE: Not of this world
RATING: PG
WHEN: December 11th through 12th
WHERE: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
WHAT: Due to visiting holiday ghosts, some students and staff find themselves living as they would have if something in their lives did or didn't happen. An alternate version who could be better or worse off!
NOTE: This signals the event start. Use any posting format you want, and feel free to post about this as well on the journals!

Comments

[insuffera6les9n9rus]

Well, I'm not surprised it seems longer. You must have infinite patience to spend your time doing what you do. Not that it isn't a noble and necessary calling, but I certainly don't have the patience for it.

[He seems to have accepted that, crossing his arms over his chest.]

I really should be working. But...I suppose, I could afford to have tea and catch up a little.

[wavesofjade]

[A soft chuckle escapes her, and she presses two fingers to her lips, feeling that if she laughs too much she might cry and she can't, can't tell him the truth. Not if she doesn't want him to be unhappy. Maybe someone else will.. but he won't hear it from her.]

There's always time for tea and a catch-up, little one. Well, almost always.

[She gestures down the hallway, towards her rooms, and falls into step beside him.]

Now, do tell me how you've been. I want to hear everything.

[insuffera6les9n9rus]

[Kankri gives a resigned little sigh and a wry smile.]

I'm learning that, as I get older.

[He starts walking that way, and as he walks more little differences between him and Sal become apparent in little things like his stride and how straight he stands.]

I've been perfectly well. A few weeks ago, I had a terrible cold and lost my voice for a day or so. I'm good as new now, but it was unfortunate that I had to take a day off of work while I was contagious.

My division has received reports of unsettled ghosts in the castle recently, and decided to send someone to investigate and perhaps conduct interviews of the has-beens - since that is the term that some prefer to be called - in question. You wouldn't happen to have heard of any disturbances, would you? While the influence that spirits can exert over the living world is actually quite minimal - much less than that of poltergeists, for instance - it is owed to them out of respect for the witches and wizards that they once were that we do what we can to appease them when they become unsettled.

[wavesofjade]

[She has to keep herself from staring at him. It's cruel, she thinks, to keep dangling life in front of Kankri in this way. Hasn't this dratted castle ever heard of respect for the dead?]

The castle has seemed restless of late..

[That is, if its antics are anything to go by.]

But I'm not sure if the restlessness of the ghosts is a cause or a symptom.