[catchall] Kate

[sixillusions]

An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house

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[sootprints]

A shadow.

... I'm afraid I don't have a good explanation for what that is, exactly. But that is the name for people who look like me.

[sixillusions]

[Oh. Hmmm.]

...Are you from here?

[Maybe she's the source of all this? He's seen weirder things.]

[sootprints]

No... I'm an outsider, like yourself. I assume.

My name is Kate.

[sixillusions]

[He considers this.]

Kanda. [...] Tell me more.

[It's not phrased as a request, but his tone isn't rude, actually--just calm, albeit straightforward. He's filing this away to report as anomaly later.]

[sootprints]

About... myself?

[sixillusions]

Yes. [Kanda say "please" challenge (impossible)]

[sootprints]

Well...

I'm a member of the Shadows household, a family of nobles that live in a large manor. I live in the children's wing of the building. Ordinarily, one would not leave the manor until reaching adulthood...

But I suppose these are unusual circumstances.

[sixillusions]

Where is it located? What country?

[Maybe he will finally learn about alternate worlds]

[sootprints]

It's a place called Soot Island. But no one I've spoken to seems to have heard of it.

[sixillusions]

[He shakes his head slightly. Unfortunately, same for him.]

...I'll ask others when I leave.

[It's impossible to tell because Kanda doesn't know how to communicate, but this is actually him being nice for DGM-related reasons.]

[sootprints]

Thank you. I'd like to know if anyone knows of it.

What about you, then? Would you tell me a little about yourself?

[sixillusions]

[Kanda says "no" and they spend the rest of this thread in silence

No I'm kidding. He won't volunteer much, but after a brief consideration--]

I'm an exorcist.

[sootprints]

Really...?

I've only read about them in books... Does that mean you deal with haunted places, possessions, and the like?

[sixillusions]

No. [But he doesn't seem surprised by the question... they get this a lot] Not unless they have the things we're looking for.

[sootprints]

What sort of things do you look for?

[sixillusions]

Holy materials, for the Church.

[Kind of. Close enough.]

[sootprints]

How do you find them?

[sixillusions]

[With a lot of legwork and a bajillion casualties, if they do at all

He doesn't say that]

They cause unusual phenomena. We investigate reports. [...] Like this fog.

[So hauntings or possessions or whatever could be relevant sometimes, but it's not, like, their actual job.]

[sootprints]

Oh...

Do you think this might be caused by such a thing?

[sixillusions]

[This is pre-Sunday, so:]

Most likely.