Most high schools are more or less the same once you get beyond things like which mascot is on the wall and how strict they are with their rules.
Gossip is one of those near-constants. The current rumor spreading around is that there is a real ghost that wanders along a certain stretch of bike path in a state park, some evenings.
"My dad actually hired her once," one girl claims, "She used to be Terrana Hastings, that healer person. How creepy is that?"
"Well... We can still die. You saw that with me. Violence. Depression. Suppressed anger."
Smile. "Definitely. I could even go find her now. I'm not going to be healing anyone at scale for a while. Medicine's changed enough that I need to take exams again, apparently."
"She's in all the rivers around here, if you know how to get her attention."
"...Do you know how to get a boat? I think I used to know someone who would fly me over rivers if I needed it, but I can't actually remember her..."
"Well, to call her. Then we can talk at the edge. Maybe she'll hear me even from the edge if we find a nice park or something."
"Maybe Elodie knows who it was you knew that knew boats. For that matter, maybe you should find your family and friends and tell them?"
"...In terms of family, I don't really have much natural family left. And I can't clearly recall who they are, or who my old friends were. I'll ask Elodie later."
"I remember... We're sort of discouraged to get too close to humans. Non-magic ones, that is. I think the Spirit Bearers who don't last the longest." Wow, what a depressing topic.
"Certainly a worthy goal. Genies always say they can't manage artifacts that will de-age lots of people, or I'd suggest that first."
"Wouldn't trust them any farther than I can throw them and they're mostly incorporeal."
"Genies are kind of stupid, yeah. But a goblin's stupid and it'll kill you if you're not careful, and a cow's stupid but it can be useful..."
"Right, yeah, I just mean that when a genie says they can't manage an artefact like that I take it to mean they haven't gone through the trouble of trying to figure it out or some such."
"...Huh, that's a good point. Maybe they could do it, if they actually thought about it for a while."
"I can ask the SA to put it on the list of things to ask genies about. For now I want to talk to Twisting Waters for you. Know any riverside parks, since a boat doesn't seem easy to figure out?"
"Let's go, then!"
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