"Buuuut you don't want to?"

"...It sounds much more interesting than watching you sleep or something?  It sounds fine, I dunno."

"I'm having trouble identifying your, like—when you say stuff like 'I'll try it if you want me to' it sounds like you'd rather lie in front of traffic and I usually prefer it when people don't generally find being around me worse than lying in front of traffic."

"...I would probably sometimes lie in traffic for variety if I could reach the road.  I mean—I don't know, I definitely wouldn't do it if you didn't want me to..."

Cool, excellent, they have successfully determined that Jeremy has gotten past the point in his life when he did things without other people's consents.

Jake will not say this. It will be counterproductive.

"Okay but is this a 'you'll do it because you're my pet ghost but you actually don't want to' thing or a 'I don't actually care either way' thing or..."

"It sounds much more interesting than watching you sleep?" he repeats.

"Alright! Then I want you to try it."

"What would you like me to try and make you experience?  ...Flight you can control yourself?"

"I mean, if you can enter my dreams we can figure it out as we go along. Otherwise... yeah I guess that's good probably?" He does not see the point of the exercise if he won't be able to interact with Jeremy in there. "I dunno I never thought about what I'd want to dream about if I could pick."

"Well, you have a few hours to think about it."

Jeremy is making that FACE again. Jake is beginning to absolutely hate that face.

"We should also figure out a spell for you to be able to, like, interact with the world again."

"....I have in fact developed one of those.  But it only works in the springtime."

"As in you can only cast it in spring or you can only interact with the world in spring?"

"It can only be cast in springtime."

"Okay... And you can't get a new one that doesn't need to wait six months? I wanna show you how to use a phone you're the kind of nerd who'd love the internet. I want to introduce you to Wikipedia."

"I can write a new one.  More easily if you can get ingredients for me, even.  What's that?"

"It's like if an encyclopedia had everything in it and was updated in real time and you could look things up in it whenever you wanted and every definition in it had links to other pages in it and you could just easily bookmark all definitions and go from one to the next. If the first time you open Wikipedia on an interesting article you don't get swallowed up by a wiki walk I'll eat my hat."

"Alrighty.  ...Did it grow out of a publisher I've heard of?"

"I don't... think so? But I can always check the history of Wikipedia on Wikipedia." He goes ahead and does that and shows Jeremy the page. "Seems like no."

He floats for better shoulder peeking.  "...Anyone can edit it??  Is that... good?"

"So there's some people who are in charge of, like, making sure people aren't trolling—uh, messing it up—and articles that are hot button issues or political or whatever get locked so that only trusted editors can do anything, and I think maybe if there are too many edits and unedits in sequence an article can get locked too, and also people can get banned from editing if they troll? But sometimes someone's an expert on a species of squid that was discovered last year and then they go and write an article about it and no one else would've."

"Wow."

Eheheheheheh he was right. "So I want to unleash you on Wikipedia because I think you'll really like it."

"Maybe I can use computers more like a blind person does?  Don't they—even back in my day there were ways of navigating without a mouse or a that-thing; I could... it would be easier for me to press buttons, I think.  To only press buttons."

"A that-thing being a stylus? Yeah you can totally use computers using buttons."