The ghost is trying to make itself sit up. It seems very startled by being directly addressed and shakes its head slightly and then manages sitting.

Miranda looks at the ghost. She looks at Aaron.

" - are you thinking he looks kinda like me."

"He looks more like you than I look like Pelape even when she's been sunning herself."

" - I was just about to ask Ismat to tell me more about the thing where she dressed as a man for a decade."

"Does this have something to do with the ghost? I wanted to get an apprenticeship and start a business. Chopped off my hair and wore boys' clothes and did very well. Got blackmailed about it so I had to cut it out."

"Has something to do with the ghost because my wife did the same thing."

"I'm confused. ...also I have to demorph in ten minutes, do we have any other way to talk to the Khazad? Um, I guess he could do it if... anyone wants to let him that close. Or I could re-morph."

"I've got some words."

<What are the requirements for a morph to talk to the Khazad?>

"Just have to be able to make the mouth sounds."

Tail-swish. He does not volunteer.

"...I can keep doing it till I run out of morph I guess." She doesn't look right at him.

"Why is the ghost... acting... like that."

"Maybe he died in a very traumatic way? I have no idea, really."

"Can you hear me?" Merenre asks the ghost.

The ghost jerks and shivers and turns to blink at him.

"Does the spell let you see him or just tell where he is?"

"I can see where there's magic, which makes for a sort of silhouette."

<Uh, ghost, can you hear me?>

The ghost startles again.

"He can hear thoughtspeak. I think."

The ghost tries to drag himself to his feet and fails.

"Does anyone want me to... tell him anything... or tell him stuff to say in his language for you..."

"Where he's from, does he have insurance..."

<He wants to know where you're from and if you have insurance. I guess it doesn't matter if we have the language for a place name, if we'd recognize it at all? And nod and shake your head about insurance?>