“You’re dead to me.”

“I’m dead to everyone. That’s how ghosts work.”

“Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb and yet we call ourselves lit.”

“When did you sleep last?”

“Somewhere in the ‘last week’ range.”

“How much of you is human?”

“All of me.” Replies the cyborg without missing a beat.

“do u have 3 dollars and some xtra time tonight??”

X squinted suspiciously at xir screen. “Maybe.” Xe typed back quickly.

“i wana do a seance” Y responded after almost a minute of radio silence.

“I reckon you folks ain’t from ‘round here.”

“What tipped you off?” Xey asked, sitting astride a dinosaur with a blue mohawk.

“What are you doing?”

Xe looked up at their companion, xer arm buried up to the elbow in the pocket of a dead man’s pants. “Is this a trick question? Because I feel like it’s… pretty obvious what I’m doing.”

“Well can you stop?”

“Not all of us live in castles.”

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