"Oh good."

"Is it, really?"

"Certainly if I want to be able to pay you back."  He bonks his forehead up into Jake's shoulder.  "...What, uh, does being your pet ghost entail—"

"I'll tell you to do things and you'll do them."

"Oh.  That's... simple."

"What'd you expect instead? I'm not gonna ask you to live in a dog house."

"That's good, because I can't live anywhere."

He rolls his eyes. "Is that what we're doing? Not gonna ask you to die in a dog house either."

"I also cannot die."

"Exist! Find me a good verb, your language doesn't have 있다."

"Maybe we'll have to loanword it."

"Alright, you don't have to 있다 in a dog house."

"Yes sir.  ...How much are you planning to tell the person who does things for you about me?"

"I wasn't, particularly. Park Jipyeong-shi is not paid to be an advisor just a PA."

"It seems like we should tell someone.  Something could still happen to you even though it's no longer going to be me."

"You're really trying to get rid of me, huh?" he says. His tone is teasing but they're snuggling close enough that Jeremy will probably notice the way he kinda froze for a second before forcing himself to relax.

"...Not... anymore?"

"Reassuring!" There's a buzzing from his pocket and Jake reaches down to grab his phone from it and look at it. "Oh good the stuff I ordered's arrived, I should go grab it. ...hey, by the way, do you need to do the spell every time you want to possess me or can you just do that now."

"....It's every time."

"Wow that's annoying. Is there some other spell that makes this just be a thing you can do whenever. Ideally one where we can actually communicate without me having to choose random body parts and try to talk via guessing games?" Also he should hyup, even though it's cold. Hyups.

Jeremy falls through the bed.  Pops up a moment later through the floorboards next to Jake.  "Uh—uh, maybe."

—that makes him stop walking and stare. "Okay, what, why did you fall through the bed, you were lying on it fine just now!!!!"

"Well I was very surprised."

"Do you have to exert power to not fall to the center of the Earth or something? Didn't you say not holding things up was fine?"

"There's a bottom to the property the same way there's a top.  Uh, but no, not quite—it's kind of, expectations-based?  And also I can fly, obviously, which is only very slightly harder."