SE: Elzéard
Dispatch: 83
Province: Califo-Septentrional
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Gibdo: It's not that I'm not afraid of ghosts, but I'm not afraid of them. (emphasis mine)
Elzéard: Who are they?
G: I don't know, I never leave my bed. I usually retreat.. go away.. into my bed.
E: What do you mean?
G: Ever since I was small, I've had this idea, that when I am scared of something, the blankets on my bed will form a gigantic cave, and I'll shrink to the size just smaller than some of my dolls, who would guard it inside and out. There would be a little fire there, a campfire, orange, and I'd sit there and wait out whatever I feared.
E: Interesting.
G: I still think about that, often. Whenever I face a sleep paralysis or have some bigger fear, I just think about the flames of that fire. They whistle, or wh-.. wh-? Whimper? No, they whisper.. wh-.. it's very soothing.
E: So you retreat when you hear.. "them"?
G: No, I have no need to, because I don't feel fear when I hear them. I merely hear them. Sometimes, I'm, I'm, ... revitalized.
E: What do you mean, revitalized?
G: Well, maybe it's more that it awakens me. If I was tired or just drifting off when it happens, this will tend to enliven me. I'll feel an energy or restlessness in me. Almost like I want to get out of bed, join them.
E: Join them?
G: Sorta.. I guess what I mean, what I mean is that I want to get up and walk around, run up and down the stairs like them, expend some of this.. this energy, get it out so I can sleep. I become very focused on this, "what should I do, should I go out and join them? Maybe then I will be tired." That sort of thing.
E: So they're moving around then, up and down the stairs. Are they saying anything, too? Can you pick out how many of them there are?
G: No, no, nothing like that. If anything it could be one, doing everything. Or else they take turns. But I never hear anything, no breathing or talking I mean. Just their feet.
E: You say "feet." Do you mean "shoes"?
G: Hm... No, it's not shoes. It's feet. And the sound of the steps and the floor being "hit."
E: And they just go back and forth?
G: Sure. Yeah, I think. Well, actually, there might be more than one. I hear one set of stairs escalated, then the same set again, also escalated, without any descending steps, so maybe?
E: What do you think it is?
G: I'm not sure. Ghosts. But I fear ghosts. I'm not sure.
NOTE:
- califo-septentrional, district of sandeman, alderman judit, commune dzjah
- west-facing, two stories, basement (three antechambers), sub-base (two antechambers), open quadrilateral stair-stack, G localized in second story, bed facing southerly wall, blade-pane windows west/east, assorted bibelots
- nine inhabitants incl. G, eight family, one vagrant-jubilee
- sounds only heard to G, vagrant-jubilee testimony null in accordance to sacrament
- routine climate fluctuating between 88-91 fahrenheit
- dust clime, volume-4, seemingly average
- last family loss some nine moons prior
- five suns until next moon, soapstone to be carved during observation
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