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[mightletyouknowme]

[Sena's been thinking a lot lately. With school and everything else she's been doing, it's been easy to keep her mind off things but it's been a little slower for her lately and the thoughts began to creep in.

And so, she's begun to think about the one thing she doesn't have here: her family. So, she opens her computer and decides to ask a few questions.

It starts with her sitting there, hand making idle circles on the desk, her eyes seeming to find the pattern fascinating.]

If we're all dead, I wonder if we can turn into ghosts. [It's a weird thought and she doesn't think so but she wants this bad enough to ask.] Ghost can go back and see people, right? It's not like they have to be the creepy ghosts from stories or anything.

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[mightletyouknowme]

[She hadn't expected an in-person response so she'll jump when she saw Haruhi, as if it's harder to admit she's sad about this when they're face to face.]

Programmer? Who was it? [She'll track him down.]

[extraordinarily]

Ah, you heard that? Sorry, I was talking to myself.

[ Haruhi's used that as an excuse before, so it's only natural that she can use it again. ]

I don't know his name. We've never really met. He did speak during the last shadow attack, though.

[mightletyouknowme]

[Why does Sena believe that when it was so obviously not true?]

Is he that weird guy who says he's a computer? [She moves closer. If Haruhi knows this, Sena will take the information.]

[extraordinarily]

[ ... who knows. ]

He didn't exactly say he was a computer. Though he was the one who was controlling the Angel Player from the main server, I think.

[mightletyouknowme]

If he's not a computer, then how can he be programmed?

..Who is the Angel Player anyway?

[extraordinarily]

The same way any person who turned into an NPC is "programmed".

[ And indeed, those air quotes are there. ]

It's not a who, it's a what. It's a program created by the programmer to maintain the afterlife, basically. It wasn't there originally; it was created by someone who showed up here, just like us, and got sick of the afterlife because his girlfriend disappeared.

[mightletyouknowme]

...That can happen to us? [She didn't know that.]

There's no way it would happen to me but there's no way I can let it happen to my friends, either.

[extraordinarily]

If the shadows get to you, it can happen. I have personal experience.

[ Only because nobody told her what the shadows are to begin with, sheesh. ]

[mightletyouknowme]

It happened to you? You don't seem that weird now.

[extraordinarily]

"Happened" as in past tense. It was only temporary.

[mightletyouknowme]

Then how did you fix it? [That may become important.]

[extraordinarily]

[ Haruhi's amber brown eyes fall sullenly, biting her lower lip as she shakes her head, hand gripping tightly onto her arm with all her strength as she speaks in a soft voice, not even bothering to look at Sena directly. ]

I... don't know. I don't really remember. I think it might have had something to do with the Angel Player, but I wasn't really involved with that sort of thing at the time. I was an NPC, so I didn't exactly do things that I would have normally wanted to do.