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"The illusion was perfect! The acting wonderful! What the heck... How the hell... What did she do to just walk out!" Chase berated himself as the wind whistled in his ears. Although the cool air and the high altitudes usually did him immense good he was not going to be as susceptible to their calming efforts this time. He just couldnt believe that she would have the... the what? He didn't even know. He shook his head, it didnt matter. The point of the illusion was to see how she reacted. He saw how she reacted, he shouldn't care what happened afterwards. He shouldn't, but he did.

Finally Chase sighed, he knew how to calm himself best. He would go to the library and read, even though he had already read every volume there several times they still helped to calm him. He angled his wings to descend in ever narrowing circles towards the library. He landed, running to use up the extra inertia before he finally slowed to a walk. He walked in, weaving an illusion of a shirt for himself. He made note to himself that he would have to buy a real one some time. He nodded to keep it in his head and walked in slowly.

The mist that had settled in the far left corner had turned into a human figure, surrounded in a pool of silver blood-like liquid. It, which looked like a middle aged man, slowly looked up at Chase, pitch black eye sockets seeming staring into his soul, despite not having any ability to actually see. It adjusted it's glasses, before shushing him, lowing it's head, and picking up a book at an incredibly slow pace.

Chase' s eyes grew wide as he looked the specter up and down. He didn't make it, did he? He focused his mind, dispelling all of his illusions. He opened his eyes to find himself once again shirtless, and the ghost still very much still there. He cussed lowly and replaced the illusion of a shirt before walking over to the thing. He didn't want to be rude, but he did want to know if it was real. He waved to catch the phantom' s attention," Are you real?" He whispered.

It sighed for a good five seconds before looking back up at him and nodding. "yes" It said simply, shutting it's book and standing up to a surprising 7 feet tall, taking a step towards him. "why...?" It asked, not used to any biological beings doing anything either than running or attacking it. It was also uncertain what to think of Chase in particular, as he wasn't quite human, as far as it could tell.

Chase stopped. He had been ready to say... He wasn't sure what he was going to say, but it certainly wasn't nothing. He opened his mouth and closed it several times as he frowned. He was afraid he had been caught off guard. Eventually he nodded and breathed in deeply," Ok... That's new... Um... are you..." He rubbed the back of his neck nervously," yunno." He asked.

"Dead? I think so." It said, it's face turning into a strange, distorted grimace. "And you..?" It asked with a slight chuckle, pushing it's glasses back up over the gaping holes in it's skull. "What does it matter to you?" It set it's book down while it asked him, as the glasses fogged over slightly to cover them back up.

" Oh." Chase said rather dumbly. He supposed he should've expected it, but it still surprised." Um... I'm alive." He nodded," Yes, I'm alive. Or, was that not..." He shook his head. He wasn't sure what the ghost' s first question had been. "I... I guess it doesn't, I'm just tryin' to make conversation. I think. Yeah, that's what I was doin'."

Gwen saw a ghost standing in front of her she notice the ghost looking at her it was a teen ghost, he showed her the different rooms, she saw chase talking to the ghost, she wonder what is going on

It had been a while since Chase had flown off. Evelyn got so bored that, she had started cloud watching and eventually she fell asleep.

Gwen saw Stacey strange looking out the window, she approached her with a smile (Stacey strange) the city needs us to fight crime

"Very well." It said, not quite sure why Chase was making small talk. "That's not a great way to start a conversation." It's face turning into a more natural looking smile. "Pleasure to meet you." It said as it held out it's hand for Chase to shake.

Chase offered his hand rather timidly. He wasn't certain what he was getting into here, but he figured of it was polite enough to answer than it couldn't be all that bad. He shook the ghost' s hand," My name's Chase. Or, did I already say that. Well, my names Chase, just in case I forgot to say. What's yours?"

Gwen and Stacey was walking around the castle until she saw the ghost entering the room they felt very uncomfortable

Evelyn woke up and Chase still wasn't back. She started to get a little bit worried.

Gwen saw somebody walking, (Stacey strange) come one let's hide, she grabbed the cloak

Chase shrugged, grabbed up a book on different types of birds, which he had read several times before. He sat there skimming through the book, refreshing all of its old memories before he placed it back on the shelf and flew off into the sky.

Evelyn started reading again.

Chase looked down from the sky, seeing a small for by a tree, and,thinking it was Evylen, he drifted down to her running several paces before finally slowing down to a walk. The boy grinned enthusiastically and waved excitedly," Hi!"

"Hey! Where'd you go? I was starting to get worried." She put down her book.

He blushed as he realized that he had been gone for a while, and he enjoyed that she cared about him. He grinned widely at the thought and answered," Erm...the library."