Open | Action: When the ghost becomes a boy

[deathbysk8board]

It isn't so much that Noah walks through a door. After all, he's more spirit than boy, more energy than being. But somehow, when he finds himself on a near a copse of trees, he seems to have a body. He can't tell if he's cold or not - he never felt cold, after all, even when he was dead and people said he was cold.

But this isn't Cabeswater. This isn't anywhere he's been. He doesn't know where he is and he doesn't know where his friends are.

And ... well, the things he doesn't know outnumber the things he does know and he's scared (which ... probably isn't a surprise). He wrings his hands together, turning a slow circle and he moves to where he's standing on a sidewalk.

"H-hello?" he manages. Can anyone even hear him without Blue's energy? Will Ronan and the others find him? The smudgy boy looks around, wide-eyed, his faded Aglionby sweater hanging loosely on him.

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[deathbysk8board]

"Hello, Gansey."

There's a relief at seeing Gansey. Gansey knows what's going on, after all. He might not always listen very well and says stupid stuff some times, but, well, since he found Noah's body, it kind of feels like they're bound together (even more than they already were, he means).

Noah tugs at the hem of his sweater, back to not knowing what to do with his hands. "I guess you can see me?" Does that mean he's more himself?

[therealgansey]

Actually, Gansey has no idea what's going on, but he is trying to figure it out and he will pretend he knows what's going on. Noah is his friend, or he was before he found Noah's body (and figured out that Noah died in his place). Now, they are still friends, but Noah is right: they are bound together.

He nods at Noah's question. "I can see you." He closes up his journal and tucks it beneath his arm. "Did you just arrive?"

[deathbysk8board]

"I guess so." If by "arrived," Gansey means that Noah had found himself here, on the other side of a door that he doesn't remember going through.

"I feel different," he adds, hands fluttering and landing on himself before moving again, like birds who don't know where to land.

[therealgansey]

Gansey frowns a little at Noah's words. It worries him when Noah feels 'different'. What if this place can't sustain him and he fades away? They don't have his body here to bury on a ley line.

"Different how, Noah?"

[deathbysk8board]

Shrugging, Noah looks down at himself, at his hands patting his chest, his belly. "I - I don't know. Solid."

He looks up at Gansey, brows drawn in a question. "I don't understand."

[therealgansey]

Gansey frowns, moving forward slightly to examine Noah more thoroughly. He touches him lightly on the shoulder, frown still firmly in place. After a moment, he will take Noah's hand if he'll let him. "You certainly feel solid and...warmer?"

It's an incredible thought but what if...surely that's not possible. "The ley lines must be incredibly strong here."

[deathbysk8board]

So, Gansey noticed it too. Noah is warmer. He lets him touch him however he wishes. "Do you think it's the ley lines?" That's what Noah assumed, too, but how does he know?

[therealgansey]

"I don't know," Gansey answers. "We'll find out though." He's just as concerned about Noah is Noah is about being alive. His hand slides from Noah's hand to his wrist, his thumb resting where a pulse point would be if...

that's definitely a pulse. "Noah, I think you're alive. Really alive."

[deathbysk8board]

But how? That's what Noah doesn't understand.

"Maybe Ronan dreamed me," he says, shrugging a little, watching Gansey's fingers on his wrist near the frayed cuff of his sweater.

[therealgansey]

"I don't know," Gansey answers honestly, dropping Noah's wrist. "Maybe. Maybe you're like Matthew now." Which isn't a bad thing. Outside of the fact that if Ronan dies, Matthew will end up like Aurora, Matthew seems totally normal. He's a little dumb, a lot naive but Gansey thinks that has more to do with Matthew being the dream thing of a three year old rather than being a dream thing.

[deathbysk8board]

But see, Noah knows what that means, too. That if anything happens, then to Ronan ...

He sighs. "You'll figure it out," he decides. Since Gansey's the leader, after all.

[therealgansey]

Gansey nods because Noah is right; he will figure it out or he'll work the problem for the rest of their time here. "I need to find a notebook. Something to record all these details in." He needed something to jot his thoughts in. "And a mint plant. Walk with me?"

They'll find Monmouth soon enough.

[deathbysk8board]

If Gansey says walk and Noah is able, Noah walks. His hands don't settle, but he walks. "Maybe your notebook is already here," he says with a shrug. Who knows? If the ley lines are here, what else could be here?

[therealgansey]

Gansey considers that, one eyebrow quirking up a bit. "That would be quite the feat, but I can't say I wouldn't be pleased for it."

He feels like a part of himself is missing without his notebook and speaking of missing parts. "They'd do one even better to have the Pig here." He sounds wistful and longing when he says that. The notebook might be a limb, but the Pig is Gansey's soul.

[deathbysk8board]

Noah's nose wrinkles just a little at that. That car is so loud and it breaks down a lot. "Hopefully Adam is here to fix it if it does show up," he says.