dropoffs | AUDIENCE 🚀 CHARLES

[sips tea too]

So you're suggesting that... impersonating the deceased was leading up to something else?

They are both strange and currently unexplainable is why.

[ Just musing. ]

Did they only show the symptom of acting as the deceased?

I didn't notice anything else. Of course, I could've missed something, since I was kind of distracted.

... With hands in your mouth.

[ She gives him a look of pity. Poor Charles. ]

I suppose for now it goes onto the list of unexplainable things. [ Sips her tea. ] Do you have a theory yourself? I am curious to hear.

[thanks... amalthea...]

Not yet... There are a lot of strange things going on this ship, after all.

It makes it seem haunted, doesn't it?

[ THANKS ]

Amalthea...

[THANKS]

If we are haunted, then I hope it's by the friends we've lost.

[ she's just a little weird okay ]

I do, too... Though I believe they are here watching over us.

You think so?

[ Smiling. ]

... I do.

[this is before arthur tells him to check her-mes i think so unfortunately he cannot ask about that]

... Well, it's a nice thought.

[ rip ]

Do you have opinions, Charles?

[ Like... Is he religious. Does he honor the dead. Etc. ]

Hm... I can't say for sure about them watching over the living—though I'd certainly like to think so, in some cases—but I do have some experience with the afterlife. So, the idea of souls lingering after death isn't new to me, at least.

Oh, you have experience... I'm curious to hear. I imagine it's better than telling how hands got into your mouth.

Well, it's mostly experience with souls who couldn't pass on after death and ended up trapped in Hell, so... mostly the unpleasant kind. Lingering regrets, and all that.

[for the record hell is purgatory. cotc was stuck with translating it as hell because of ot1 for consistency probably.]

That is quite direct...

[ She doesn't seem disturbed by it at all. Feels translations. ]

Do you guide them?

Not exactly my specialty, but I have a friend who helps out what souls they can. They're the one who can go between Hell and the world of the living at will—I can really only go to Hell with their assistance, or under special circumstances.