2nd Adventure

[forever_cheery]

[Phone call: open to all]

Okay, so, all that zombie stuff is over, right? I see what you guys mean, now. That was terrible! Is everyone alright? Do you need anything? I know I'm new here, but I'd like to help if I can. Anything, you name it!

Oh, I also got a call yesterday from the elementary school, asking if I was actually going to come into work today? I didn't know I had a job. Does this normally happen?

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[Later on, Aurora will be found in the following places:

A) At the elementary school! Welcome the new reading teacher, kids. A perky teen dressed perfectly in her 1950s clothes, looking excited to be there while writing her name on the board: Aurora Belle Jenkins.]

Hi! I'm Ms. Jenkins, but the drones will tell you I'm Mrs. Gell-- um, Mrs. Jellv-- Well, it doesn't matter. Aurora is just fine!

Ah... To be perfectly honest with you all, I don't know the first thing about teaching. Things are pretty different where I come from. And a reading teacher? I'm not sure what to do, really... [She picks up her teacher's guide and flips through it, looking unsure of what to do.]

Well, how about this? Since it's my first day here, we'll take it easy! Tell me about yourself. Let's get to know each other!

[And every single student shall be called on. NONE SHALL ESCAPE.]

[B) After school, Aurora will be out and about the town, glad to not be locked in the house any longer. She'll be at the department store, looking at clothes and trying them on, not bothered by the 50s style at all. She actually seems to like it.

Aurora will also be stopping in at the record store, perusing the selection. She'll occasionally pick up a rock 'n' roll album and look it over, thinking. There's something about it that's strangely familiar, but she can't quite put her finger on it. She doesn't know it, but Aurora was born in 1960, so a lot of things in Mayfield have a comfortable and familiar quality about it. But thanks to her status as a ghost, she can't really remember.]

Comments

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Cleaning is easy enough, but I don't know how to cook. Not yet, anyway. Heck, I'm still learning what foods I like and don't like.

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

[He blinks at her.]

Still learning what food you like and don't like? Couldn't taste 'em before?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't eat. I was dead. We don't eat!

[Said so pleasantly and still smiling, yep. No biggie.]

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

So this place even brings people who'd been dead in their own world back to life, eh?

He has some hope that some of his comrades could eventually end up here, now.]

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Guess so! Apparently I'm not the only one, either.

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

So, what was bein' dead like?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Ha, so many people ask me that. It's not bad, really. There's a lot of us there, so there's plenty of other souls to talk with in the Afterlife. And we can visit Earth any time we want, too. Very few people can see or talk to us, though.

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

So there are lots of these souls? Ya think there are any around us right now?

[His former comrades, maybe? He's looking around the room to see if he can spot anything strange.]

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, lots! I don't know if there are any here though. I don't think we can visit this place. And since I'm human now, I can't see them anyway.

Someone told me there are other spirits in Mayfield, but they were made human too, like I am.

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

[His shoulders sag a bit, but then he grins. This was still good news.]

I guess that means there's a chance some of my old comrades might show up.

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

I guess so! That would be great, huh. Though I wonder how Mayfield brings people here from the Afterlife. I can't even imagine it.

[all-ofthethings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they were a pretty cool bunch.

[He's trying not to sound like he misses them.]