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[ring_for_giles]

Good evening, this is Giles speaking

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[serialskiller]

Except now you are again. Or were. Word's getting out.

How did not pretending go, for you? Is it something other people come to accept in time, or?

[ring_for_giles]

I have to keep myself safe so I had to try to be Ernest Giles for a while to keep myself safe
It didn't work I wasn't very good at it darling

But the first time around yes
People accepted me as I was after a while
I found people here like Sarah and Billy and Traci and others I can't remember by name
My memory is so fuzzy these days
They didn't care what I was
That I was made of glitter without any substance
Some even became friends
I'm
I'm trying to get them back darling

[serialskiller]

Get them back? Were they friends here, or back home?

Because I'm assuming you're one of the ghosts of the ship. Who came from previous voyages. Right?

[ring_for_giles]

Here

I was a passenger a long time ago
I don't know how long
It gets hard to remember after a while of being a ghost

You'd like Sarah I think darling
She was always so kind
Made friends with everyone no matter who they were
Had a lot of fun stories too about the creatures she was friends with in her home

[serialskiller]

There's something a philosopher once said. "Now is the envy of all the dead." I think you must understand that better than any of us current passengers can.

Did you choose to possess Giles, or...?

[ring_for_giles]

Yes
Yes that is truer than you'd think darling

And... sort of?
I don't really know
There was an opportunity and I had to take it but
It felt familiar
Like he was calling to me
I knew him back home
Or a version of him anyway
His memories are all wrong
It's very confusing darling

[serialskiller]

Another world, another timeline, another him.

I'm sorry, for what it's worth. I once heard a friend's voice. A ghost. I didn't think it could have been on the ship, but now I wonder if some version of it might have been.

People are going to be horrified and upset and angry that their people are possessed. Those of us who are alive now, we feel entitled to our now. You had your now, however long ago.

You get that. Right?

[ring_for_giles]

Well yes
But
What else am I supposed to do darling?

[serialskiller]

I don't have an answer to that. And I'm sorry for that.

Would you rather I still call you Giles, or do you have your own name?

[ring_for_giles]

I
Um

He actually has to think about that. It's a good few minutes before the next message comes through

Ginger
My name is Ginger D'Abernon

[serialskiller]

Ginger. I'd say it's nice to meet you, but under the circumstances that feels kinda fucked up. But I guess I actually am meeting you now, or as close as anyone probably will.

I'm SecUnit. Or Rin. Or at least, that's what I let people call me.

[ring_for_giles]

Well it *is* a pleasure to meet you SecUnit 🥰
You are a very kind
Hm

You're very kind

And I appreciate that darling truly
For what it's worth I would have liked to meet you under better circumstances

[serialskiller]

Thank you. And the same to you.

What do you plan to do now? I mean, on the macro scale. Keeping the body...probably isn't in the cards, in the long term. No one's going to accept that. Giles is a person, and he is loved.

[ring_for_giles]

He is
Terribly much
That's been the case in every instance of him I think
He always has his Ossie

I don't have any plans darling
Not really
I just
I just want to exist

[serialskiller]

I don't think that's not a valid thing to want.

I also don't think you're going to get to have it forever. Be thoughtful about what you're doing and why. Remember your time is borrowed.

Good luck, Ginger. Please don't give me a reason to become an enemy to you.