Most high schools are more or less the same once you get beyond things like which mascot is on the wall and how strict they are with their rules.
Gossip is one of those near-constants. The current rumor spreading around is that there is a real ghost that wanders along a certain stretch of bike path in a state park, some evenings.
"My dad actually hired her once," one girl claims, "She used to be Terrana Hastings, that healer person. How creepy is that?"
Very. Creepy enough that she wants to check it out and use as an excuse not to have to be around her father.
Is there any more information available on this ghost?
The gossip mill gives her a specific time the ghost is supposed to show up, at least.
Kaede can look up Terrana Hastings on the internet and find that she seems to have disappeared from the news about three years ago, but was a popular healer-for-hire before that. There were implications that she might be giving people magical sex-change operations at one point, which stirred up quite some controversy.
Five to seven PM.
There's nothing obvious on the bike path at five.
If she walks up and down the right stretch a couple of times, she might see a figure in the distance ahead. Unclear yet if it's another live person or the purported ghost.
The maybe-ghost doesn't seem to be moving.
That sure looks like a ghost. Pale, translucent. The ghost looks at her blankly, then turns back toward looking at the little stream.
"Oh. I'm so sorry. But there must be something I can do—find another Spirit Bearer to give you more—something—?"
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