3rd Floor CR, Monday Morning

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The first weird thing was that Claire woke up early during her week off.

The second weird thing was that she didn't just want to hang out in her room all day. So she took her sketchbook and a set of pastels and went to the common room to curl up on a couch and draw ... she wasn't sure yet. It might just be her coffee mug. Maybe her coffee mug in spaaaaaaace.

The TV was on and tuned to some soap opera, but Claire wasn't paying enough attention to say what it was about.

[OOC: Open like a CR.]

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"Oh god, I don't wanna go to hell," he said and made a face. "I can't spend the entirety of my afterlife on a bus."

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Claire considered it, taking the idea a little more seriously. "Maybe we don't really go anywhere," she said. "maybe we just kind of ... hang around as ghosts."

She shrugged a little. "It would beat a bus."

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"It would be," Ned agreed. "I still don't know if I'd want to be a ghost. They tend to scare people."

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"You could be this friendly ghost," Claire said. "Like metaCasper!"

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"I don't know if I could pull of friendly," Ned said thoughtfully. "I tend to worry too much. I'd worry that my ghostly presence was frightening people."

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Claire rubbed the side of her neck. "Okay, what would you want to have happen?"

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"I dunno," Ned said after a quiet moment. "Maybe nothing. Maybe I'd just be...gone, you know. In the ground or however."

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"And everything's just over?" Claire asked. "Yeah. That would be nice, if that's it."

"Sorry, kid, you're stuck with me," Claire's father informed her from over Ned's shoulder, and she was just going to ignore him because she wasn't crazy and therefore he wasn't a real ghost.

She shook it off. "So, uh ... wow, I have no idea how we got from wanting snow to that, but sorry."

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"It's okay," he said and shrugged. "It doesn't really bother me."

As long as he wasn't causing the deaths, he could talk about it.

"It won't bum me out. I've had weirder conversations. But, yeah, sorry too."

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"It's the funeral home thing," Claire explained. "I can get kind of morbid, and ... yeah. But it's cool."

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"It'll take a little more than a conversation about the afterlife and what it entails to make me a depressed mess," Ned said. "It's almost kind of interesting to hear other views."

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"If you want to know what I actually think?" Claire asked, taking this as an invitation. "I mean, my family's Episcopalian, but I don't really go to church. I think we're probably just gone like you said, but ... I think sometimes people's memories are really alive and that's what we call ghosts."

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"Memories like..." Ned tried to piece that together. "So, you don't think the actual person is the ghost but the memory of the person someone has?"

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"Yeah," Claire said. "This is weird, but sometimes when I think about my dad, it's like he's there. I don't think there are ghosts just wandering around saying boo."

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"Huh." Ned bit his lip, thoughtful. "You know, I've never considered it like that. I don't tend to dwell on memories because, well, most of mine are pretty depressing but that's still a new way of looking at things."

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"I dunno, it's just an idea," Claire said, with a careful look. "Sorry all your memories are depressing."

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"Everyone apologizes when I mention that," Ned said. "It's not your fault. It's no one's fault so need to apologize. It'd just be one of those things that would be weird if your theory is right."