3rd (lack of) sleep note. Audio at three am but left on the network as always.

[11calls]

[Alex doesn't sleep. It's a problem. So, when she doesn't sleep, she reads the network. That's probably a problem too. But for now, she's focusing on one thing. It's a thing that she probably shouldn't focus on, and that Strand would shake his head at, and it's three in the morning but Alex's chipper, canadian ready for radio voice comes out anyway.]

You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.

Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.

[A beat.]

And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.

But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.

[And then she laughs.]

Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.

And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.

Comments

[muskeg]

[ if Sage cares about her peering at his half assed work that is more guesswork and theory than actual magic at this point, he clearly doesn't show it. he snorts at her explanation though, looking more than a little amused.]

There are people who will say that ghosts are not real even when faced with one I have found, people want to believe what they will. No matter what proof might be facing them.

[ magic is well known in his world, is something that everyone knows about, but still-- there are those that argue against it all the time. ]

Mmm? I am working on some new potions and spells. Trying to get used to the magic of this place. It's-- new.

[11calls]

[Alex laughs softly:]

Sounds like you know Dr. Strand. [Even if it was a complete impossibility given how he was doing magic.]

Have you gone to the magical academy? There's all sort of different magical people there.

[muskeg]

Uh, no. Don't know any doctors, except mention of the Strange guy...

[ and that was only in passing, mentions of magic and Sage was still pretty sure someone was pulling his leg. ]

Uh, the Greysomething or other place? [ he should know its name, he should, because:] I work there, potions. It's what I am best at.

[11calls]

He's from back home, actually. He's a friend.

But yeah, that's what I mean. I don't go there myself, but Loki was telling me about it.

[In a different 3am post, because welp, Alex doesn't do the sleep thing.]