"Still, more" heads - how about not that actually! - "people on it is better."

D:  How involved do you expect your dad to want to be in this?

"Oh, basically not at all, I expect him to mutter a lot and then provide logistical help while giving me weird looks, but like, it's fine, I'm a grownup."

D:  How old are you?

"Eighteen since September."

MA:  You might do better to bring in a circle of people you can really trust and who are interested, if you can source any.  This is big stuff and eighteen isn't as old as it might feel.
D:  With respect.
MA:  With respect.
D:  And it might still be a good idea even if you were a little older.

"I will certainly be seeing who I can pick up as I go, but I am an introvert and do not come equipped with a posse already."

D:  Well, likewise be careful about bringing in someone untrustworthy just for the sake of it.

"Naturally."

MA:  How's school for you?

"I'm looking forward to college. Or, well, I was before I realized I might have to reorient my life plans around ghosts existing."

D:  Any hobbies?

"Mostly reading."

D:  Hm.
MA:  Might you want to bring your father over tonight?

"Maybe after dinner, yeah. ...Are you three so far as you know the only ghosts on this plot? Nobody else ever died at home here?"

J:  Right.

"Huh. ...why aren't hospitals incredibly obviously haunted?"

J:  I think the answer here is, they just kind of are.  Lots of weird sh stuff happens in hospitals, and people are too busy, stressed, or injured to let the world know.  Lots of people just believe in ghosts, and don't skip college about it.

"I guess. I've been in hospitals but..."

D:  When Jeremy got his tonsils out, there was a supply closet across the hall with a tape player in it that was always playing Patty Duke, and I mean always.  The staff made sure to flip it over regularly.  For the ghosts.  Melody Anne thought it was nonsense, I thought it was a little silly but sweet enough; now we figure there was probably something to it, even if the ghost who wanted that wasn't there all the time and maybe would have asked for more variety if they could've.
MA:  What would you do, if you found us but there wasn't a handy book of spells?  What if Jeremy couldn't write with you?  Would you become a medium, go on TV, and get made a fool of when your contact disappeared?  I think folks mostly give what comfort they can to those around them, and carry on with their lives while they have them.

"I mean, I'd keep poking around, I guess I might give up eventually if I never got anything - usable."

MA:  I don't think most people ever do.

"I'm getting that."

D:  Anything you'd li

The jacket turns around and has an animated conversation with the center of the room.  For at least two minutes.

J:  Let it be known that I don't prefer to ask this, but if I don't my parents will signal that I'm misrepresenting them to you.

D:  Anything you'd like to let us all know before Jeremy lets you at the launch codes?

"I... don't think so? Also I don't think I am scheduled to receive them today."