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Tweak says, "and I care because...?"

Jeff Andonuts (snowblindheart) wrote in clockwork_rp,
@ 2008-02-08 23:37:00

Entry tags:

jeff::snowblindheart, zidane::thiefmaster

Things To Do In Clockwork When You're Dead [Complete]
Who: Jeff (snowblindheart) and Zidane (thiefmaster)
What: Jeff's dead. This is, obviously, a bit disconcerting.
When: Wednesday, noonish
Where: Started in the lobby, currently in 304B
Warnings: Um, previous character death? Potential ghostly hijinks?

The Chosen didn't even die like normal people. Sure, people didn't die for good in Clockwork -- but they also didn't linger around. There was supposed to be some sort of period of oblivion, a darkness... but it had never quite worked that way for Jeff, not when he'd been on his journey, and not even now. Some shard of him always lingered when he was unconscious, incapacitated... or really, for truly, dead.

Like he knew he was this time.

Why he was left as a ghost, he couldn't say. It was obvious, though: the transparency, the incorporeality... the general feeling of being out-of-phase with the physical world. It was, quite frankly, disconcerting. Here his body was lying upstairs, and he was helpless to do anything about it.

(Intellectually, Jeff knew he really ought to be angry, or afraid, or shocked -- but it wasn't as if he had glands. Without hormonal signals, rationality was much, much easier.)

He'd come to the lobby in search of something like help -- at bare minimum, someone who could tidy his body up until whatever the hotel would do to put him back in it. Or even, he admitted, just someone to talk to. As strange as it was to say... he was getting bored.

Jeff floated to a chair and sat. Why? Well, one developed habits in life, he guessed, and in death they didn't really change. Goodness, he was thinking much too clearly about this!

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	snowblindheart 2008-02-09 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Thanks, mouthed Jeff, with a nod and something not unlike a wan smile. He'd been worried about that -- in what condition he'd come back, and where... but this would be a peaceful enough place to wake up in. When he did. If he did. ... He would, wouldn't he? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thiefmaster 2008-02-09 07:00 am UTC (link)
	Jeff had to wake up, right? He did hear of people dying and waking up after the twenty-four hour mark? "Damnit," he muttered. His arms folded across his chest. He looked at the ghostly figure again. "I'll stay and guard you... er, the body... ok?" He was asking for permission, if Jeff'll allow it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	snowblindheart 2008-02-09 07:04 am UTC (link)
	Jeff paused at that. He hadn't thought about that, but... it would mean a lot of him, he realized, to know that someone was looking out for it -- for him. That maybe he wouldn't be waking up alone. Another nod of thanks, and another smile, slightly more lifelike. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thiefmaster 2008-02-09 07:14 am UTC (link)
	He snatched up his weapons and paused; he picked up the gun as well and placed it by the bedside. He leaned back against the wall, fully intending to stay awake until Jeff's awakening. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	snowblindheart 2008-02-09 07:22 am UTC (link)
	The ghost, meanwhile, settled into something like a meditative posture over the bed. There was something off about it, but... well, Jeff could wait. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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