[ use your words valerie, jonas isn't too hard pressed about it.]
Bigger space. People aren't so bad. [ a joke follows: ] Pay a lot less for things, too.
[ but he realizes this still explains nothing. ]
...I'd just moved right before coming here. I hadn't even really settled in there yet before Alex and I died, or whatever this is. The move was for the better, it was everything before that that wasn't so great.
I don't know. It's just...really different from everything else we were talking about.
But... [ sighs ] I mean, I was just going to school, working my job, and hunting ghosts. That was pretty much it. Well, up until pretty recently, anyway.
It's not that different when you started this by asking about our bed situation. [ ... ] And it's better than thinking about the shitshow we just spent nine hours working out.
[ but he pauses as he thinks that over. ]
But okay. Totally normal stuff. [ dry. ] I still don't really get your whole ghost hunting thing, to be honest. Not exactly something people just fall into, right?
Ghost boy and his dog made my dad lose his job, made us lose the house, and made me lose everything else I had left. Then I got given a bunch of ghost hunting gear and went out to get back at him for it.
[ there's a bit of a shift in her emotions as she recounts it--it starts out with the tiniest, dullest spark of anger, like an old hurt she's come to terms with, but by the end, her feelings are distinctly...uncomfortable. ]
[ interesting. his emotions flicker to something a little more like curiosity before swinging wildly back over to something calm again. he can sense the discomfort though, and he decides to back off a bit. ]
Classic revenge story. Respectable. [ distantly. ] Or, I guess, understandable at least.
[ he doesn't ask if she's succeeded, if only because she seems uncomfortable with the subject. ]
I mean...I'm pretty sure that's always the way. You have crappy circumstances and you eventually hit the rock bottom, but then in order to make anything of it at all you have to claw you way back up to where you want to be. Sort of like...building from the ground up.
[ hum. ]
Is that why you want to get back? To recover stuff for you and your dad and keep doing the hunting thing?
I mean...I do still want that, yeah. But I've got bigger things to worry about now. I'm like...the only good ghost hunter the town has. And some big stuff just happened that I can't leave unfinished.
You get that not many places have actual ghost hunters, right? [ a light reminder. ] ...but I get that. It sort of feels even worse getting torn away from it when you know there's stuff to fix. If you know how to fix it and how to finish it, that is.
[ he's used to people being annoyed and frustrated with him, so he doesn't seem to think much of it. ]
Good. [ good? sure. it's good to know she has some kind of goal in general. ] You've still got some time to think it over before then. [ before going back. ]
[ it's mostly because valerie wants to get home, but jonas is of the opinion that you should be working well with your team to be in sync and manage it. plus given what happened with mizuki earlier it's worth checking. ]
Fine is decent. If fine's working for you guys, then that's not bad.
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So what parts are better than home?
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Bigger space. People aren't so bad. [ a joke follows: ] Pay a lot less for things, too.
[ but he realizes this still explains nothing. ]
...I'd just moved right before coming here. I hadn't even really settled in there yet before Alex and I died, or whatever this is. The move was for the better, it was everything before that that wasn't so great.
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...yeah, we don't get a whole lot of money, but we don't have to pay for most stuff either. So that's...nice. And it is bigger than home.
[ she can't really comment on the people. ]
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...Valerie let me ask you something. What were you doing with your life before you got here?
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What? Where's this coming from?
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Why is that so weird to be asking?
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But... [ sighs ] I mean, I was just going to school, working my job, and hunting ghosts. That was pretty much it. Well, up until pretty recently, anyway.
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[ but he pauses as he thinks that over. ]
But okay. Totally normal stuff. [ dry. ] I still don't really get your whole ghost hunting thing, to be honest. Not exactly something people just fall into, right?
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[ the way he says it indicates he doesn't mind either way if she tells or not. ]
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[ there's a bit of a shift in her emotions as she recounts it--it starts out with the tiniest, dullest spark of anger, like an old hurt she's come to terms with, but by the end, her feelings are distinctly...uncomfortable. ]
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Classic revenge story. Respectable. [ distantly. ] Or, I guess, understandable at least.
[ he doesn't ask if she's succeeded, if only because she seems uncomfortable with the subject. ]
...sorry to hear that's how it started though.
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I'm glad it led me to ghost-hunting. I love doing it. But I wish it didn't have to come with losing everything first.
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[ hum. ]
Is that why you want to get back? To recover stuff for you and your dad and keep doing the hunting thing?
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Yeah. I...don't know what to do about it yet, or how, but I am gonna figure it out.
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Good. [ good? sure. it's good to know she has some kind of goal in general. ] You've still got some time to think it over before then. [ before going back. ]
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How are you getting along with your team?
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We've been doing fine.
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Fine is decent. If fine's working for you guys, then that's not bad.