#1930s!palasaki

[pappelsiin]

thinking about crystal who's stuck in a form between life and death, a girl who died in her time only to resurface decades later in a body too warm and solid for a ghost but a soul halfway out of the vessel it's tied to. she's more energy than she is human and thus, maybe she won't have to watch niko grieve as crystal ages (she wouldn't, she'd never feel as though crystal is leaving, but rather thank the universe for letting her hold crystal's hand through it all), maybe this form will withstand the test of time better than her living self could've.

and then there's the monty of it all. no one knows whether monty can sustain himself without crystal, with the familial tie they share now. monty doesn't fear, though, because he can not let such things weigh him down when there are two ghosts, two boys who're so incredibly alive, holding him through the nights he can't seem to settle down on.

just, the things decades in the human world does to five people who are all more or less dead. four of them reminiscing a time they can't go back to and one trying to learn what it is to be a ghost.