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[axegirlfriend]

So, um...

[A heavy, heavy pause. Cool, good start, Remington. Really nailing this whole thing.]

I haven't had a chance to say anything about it earlier because of...you know...everything.

[Quentin's post below his is telling enough as it is.]

But I used some, um, leftover wood scraps from the church rebuilding to make these, ah, ornamental markers? I gave them to the forest spirits and asked them to hang them on eye-level tree branches on the trees that they call home, so we don't accidentally knock something down for lumber that we shouldn't.

[He clears his throat.]

So that's all. If you see them. Um, that's what they are. I'll make more every so often so it'll reach places farther in...but...yeah...okay, bye. Thanks?

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[itselbitch]

[ oh, boy. remi always seems to do this, find something else to set him on edge, and it's not always so obvious what it might be. in this case though, eliot thinks he can take a guess, and this being such a place that's proven itself full of dangers, he doesn't know if it's even safe to question openly. ]

Was that a thing too? In your town. Spirits turning on people.

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[axegirlfriend]

I mean, um, it depends?

[One can practically hear the flinching in his voice.]

They'd usually leave people alone unless people went out of their way to find them, but you always have your odd cases because spirits are incredibly changeable creatures so sometimes they just kind of latch on and maybe they're not even trying to be mean or show ill-intent but before you know it you're practically living in a haunted house and finding dead things in your yard...

[Projecting? He's out of breath.]

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[itselbitch]

[ well that sure sounds way too specific to be a joke. also remi's jokes tend to be more bland and. way less creative. ]

So they're. Malleable. Okay. Like. To anything specific or predictable? Or is this like a "keep a cross above your bed and always say a few Hail Mary's before going to bed" kind of thing?

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[axegirlfriend]

Not really predictable, no. At least not that I've ever found? Honestly I tried to avoid as much interaction as possible just because I was never very confident in my next move. I mean, you can definitely kind of get to know them? But it's like how with regular people, everyone's different. Every spirit is gonna react differently to certain things, though they all generally follow some typical rules. Like, they don't really "get" lying, so they don't take very kindly to anything that feels like double-crossing.

[It takes him a second to realize how much he said.]

Sorry. If I, um, information overload.