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She claps her hands and twirls around.

"Ohhh, you're fun, you're fun, you're fun," she crows.
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"You're familiar," Bella accuses suddenly.

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The familiar stranger cocks her head and spins to face Bella.

"Am I? You're not."
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"...Kind of like a combination of Addy and Alice, actually," says Lazarus.

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"Look at her face, she's like a female Alice," says Bella. "I suppose she's got some Addyesque properties too but she doesn't physically resemble her."

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"Magically she's nothing like either of them," he says. "Magically she's nothing like anything."

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"Who's Alice?" she inquires. "Does he look like—"

Her body disintegrates in a flash, from the dress inward; the skeleton is the last to go, and it lingers for a moment, clean and white.
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Then a new skeleton appears, just slightly different from the last, and a new body assembles on it as quickly as the other one left. He's even wearing the same tight grey dress.

"—this, by any chance?"
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"Well, he would have if I'd let him get a bit older before I turned him into a vampire," says Bella. "So what are you?"

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She unravels and reweaves herself again.

"I'm a ghost!" she says brightly.
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"It is both really gross and really fascinating when you do that," says Lazarus.

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"Agreed on both counts," says Bella. "What kinda world has this kinda ghost?"

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"Mine," she says impishly.

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"Well," Bella says. "Now I am enlightened, aren't I."

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"Aww, I'm sorry," she says with apparent sincerity. "But I really don't know! I'm the only one of me I've ever found."

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"Huh. Do you think you'd be able to see another of you if there were one? Since others who aren't Lazarus can't see you?"

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"Maybe," she says. "Maybe not." She grins at Lazarus. "Maybe I should stick by you for a while."

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"...I am so torn," says Lazarus.

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"I'm considering sticking my head out the door and fetching Alice. You aren't," she gestures vaguely at the ghost, "evil or anything? I like it less when he hangs out with the evil one we met. I'm not gonna stop him but I'm not gonna go out of my way to facilitate, there."

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"Evil?" she asks. "Really, honey?"

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"Well, come on, the other alt of my Alice who I've met was a terrorist because he liked a certain lady who went around executing vigilante justice and he wanted attention. We could argue about his underlying moral fiber all day but it'd take longer."

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"I don't have underlying moral fiber," she says.

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Bella rolls her eyes. "I'm not going to fetch Alice, then. Oh well. What can your kinda ghost do besides take yourself apart and put yourself back together?"

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She rolls her eyes right back, and disintegrates.

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Bella blinks.

"Is she even still here?" she asks Lazarus. "Or did I bore her to smithereens?"
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