[as if sensing his new friend's internal distress, Bowie begins gently batting at the other teen's hands in between chin rubs. don't be upset, other human. you've got an ugly cat who loves you.]

It's not uncommon when it comes to the supernatural. When I died it was the same way for me.

[how frightening that had been, 'waking' after her murder to find that the people clearing away her own body couldn't hear her desperate pleas. Reimi remembers how hard she'd cried, terrified that even Arnold would depart for the afterlife without so much as a backwards glance to his mistress.

it was safer that way, certainly. the world would be more of a hotbed of chaos than it already was if everyone could see the truth behind the curtain. but that didn't make it any easier for those who'd been stripped of a choice in the matter.

silently, she can't help but hope that Kurama finds the opportunity to make good on his unspoken threat someday.]

We can't do anything about it right now, but I can't help but wonder if that could change.

[people could be 'turned on' to the network and were every couple of months. surely a smaller scale version of that could be employed.]