See you at the Black Parade!

[imaglyphwitch]

[Video opens up and its the Disaster house...isn't it? Or maybe its Halloween somehow making its way into the house. There are skeletons and zombie facsimiles all over the front of the house, ravens and colors of orange and black all over the top portion. Someone is very much using their ability to fly to make sure the house looks as complete as possible.

The backyard has a faux cemetery because of course it does, and currently putting up tombstones is one Luz Noceda, in a cat skull mask, and she waves to all of you].

Hey! Sooo...in light of getting back into my regular sleeping pattern, I learned that we have something like a certain festive holiday back home, except its all about hiding your face! There's folklore that reminds me a little of Samhain with the whole keeping away bad spirits, so I figure: why not get into the spirit, and meld that sentiment with Halloween from back home?

So over at the house I'll be doing my best to keep things creepy: eyeballs, fake blood, creepy music, the whole deal. Kinda helps with the ambiance, and so far? Nothing really bad has happened yet!

Granted, gotta keep it that way too! Part of this is for the fun, part is for, well, you never know? In case spooks around here aren't just made up.

[Look, she had a whole ordeal on a boat with dead bodies. Letting her naivete fool her is just dumb at this point].

Hope I see you guys getting into the spirit too! Do you all have a version of Halloween where you come from?

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[imaglyphwitch]

Not as much as you'd think. I miss my mom more than anything on Earth. It's the Boiling Isles, the place I wound up stumbling into, that I miss more. But its people I miss most of all.

[There were LOTS of people Luz missed, from Earth to the isles to Deerington. There was so much that it actually hurt to think about].

I've been here and the town before it, so yeah. I think the better question to ask is what's the strangest thing that ever happened to you?

[lightinside]

I've got people back home that I miss too. But my sister is here, so at least I have her. I didn't expect to see her though.

[She is sympathetic though. If Luz ever wanted to talk about it, she would offer a listening ear.]

Uh, strangest thing to happen to me? [It's a good question.] I guess getting kidnapped and being held hostage by a serial killer was pretty strange. Obviously, I made it out okay.

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh, that's great! I mean, not so much that you're both here, but definitely that you're both here together!

[Boy, she hoped that they were both ok. She'd have to check and make sure later].

Oh. Whoa. That is pretty bad! But um. Definitely expect things to get just as bad here. It might not be, but it might not NOT be, you know?

[What are you even talking about Luz]?

[lightinside]

Yeah. We can look out for each other.

[Even though she knows Sara can take care of herself, Laurel is still going to be there for her.]

Someone else told me that things can be difficult here sometimes. But it’s okay, I’d rather know the truth, you know? Helps me be prepared.

[Laurel thinks she gets what she means.]

Maybe I'll catch you at the festival some day?

[imaglyphwitch]

Great! It's always nice when someone from your world is here.

[Hehe...ah. Just ignore that small twinge of sadness on Luz's face that comes and goes].

I agree! I was told the truth about the world I arrived at pretty quickly, and it turned out to work well!

[Until it didn't but shhh].

Sure! I'll probably be there every day unless I'm having one of the migraine spells!

[lightinside]

Oh no. I'm sorry that you've been having migraines. They really suck.

[She gives her a sympathetic look.]

Do you need any advice on how to deal with them? I can give you some.

[While Laurel didn't always get migraines, she knew how much they hurt.]

[imaglyphwitch]

Yeah, they're not...great. Think it's another side effect.

[That was nice of her].

Oh, I know how to deal with them! I just...can't really have someone with vileblood around me ALL the time, you know?

[lightinside]

Vileblood? I remember reading about the different blood types in the journal I found in my bag.

[One of the many weird things about this place.]

How can you tell what one you are? I haven't tried to find out yet.

[imaglyphwitch]

Yup, they are a few blood types that live in our house, actually! Vile, cold, pale and dark!

Vilebloods are the ones that have the blood that are green and red and smells like flowers!

[lightinside]

Okay. That's an interesting kind of blood, but the flower scent sounds nice.

If I prick my finger would that be enough blood to figure out what type I am?

[imaglyphwitch]

The people I know are vile bloods are an interesting mix1

By the way, if your smells like milk, you have blood like mine and you're a pale blood!

[lightinside]

Pale blood. Okay, I remember that one.

Now when you say milk, do you mean the kind that's went off or just like regular milk?

[imaglyphwitch]

It also glows at night!

Regular milk. Glad it only smells like it or I'd be allergic to myself!

[lightinside]

I'm glad for that too. Allergies aren't fun.

To recap. Pale blood glows in the dark and smells like regular milk. Is there anything else I should know about it?

[imaglyphwitch]

Neither is being lactose intolerant.

Well, considering this months, if you're a pale blood you'll be able to see ghosts.

[lightinside]

Ghosts. Okay, not completely out of the realm of possibility.

Do you know if I can talk to them or only see them?

[imaglyphwitch]

This is not my first encounter with ghosts, and I don't think it'll be the last.

Honestly, I think it depends on the situation. Sometimes you see them as sort of...like the wind, here and gone, a part of things yet not. The ghosts that are more solid, more tangible, they either are kinda stuck on replay of some trauma, or they're pretty vengeful.

[Luz would be getting an eyeful of the latter later, lucky her].

[lightinside]

[She listens carefully to what Luz had to say about the ghosts. Maybe Laurel could learn something from it.]

Thanks for explaining more about them. I don't think I want to encounter the vengeful kind, but if I do, I'll be careful. Ghosts aren’t really a thing where I'm from. At least, I'm pretty sure they aren’t.

[imaglyphwitch]

No problem!

They're not typically a thing from where I'm from, Earth, at least not as far as I've seen. People talks about ghosts there but I'd never seen them there.

Here, well, my blood is making it way easier to see them now.

[lightinside]

Do you know what else your blood is capable of?

Even if you haven't tested it out, I'd be interested to know.

[imaglyphwitch]

Well I'm sure everyone's is a little different, but...

I've traveled outside my body, and I can feel certain people's distress who are actually miles away from me at times.

So. That's happening.

[lightinside]

Holy crap.

[Remembering not to swear in front of a teenager.]

Can you control it well, or is it hard to manage?

[imaglyphwitch]

Yeah, a whole boat load of holy craps, actually.

Which one? They're both taking time to get the hang of.

[lightinside]

Sorry, I meant both.

Do you have anyone to help you figure them out?

[imaglyphwitch]

For the most part, they're both new. The empathic stuff comes and goes, but the traveling out of my body thing is something I'm still trying to master.

Actually, I am trying to get some help from a witch that's here. So far it's slow, since everything about this magic is new to me.