[Video: early morning]

[greenisthenewblack]

[Sheila's in a bathrobe, looking rather more disheveled and irate than... most people on the network have seen her before. If they've seen her at all. This is, after all, her first video.]

[She'd be more concerned about her appearance if both hands weren't, y'know. Glowing. Glowing green, in fact, with a few black flecks. She gives a deep, exasperated sigh.]

Great. Now I glow.

Other people blast things, or get cyborg implants, or super-strength.

I fucking glow.

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[video]

[greenisthenewblack]

You do?

[Of course it'd be Danny who recognized one of her echos. Of course.]

Well, don't just stand there gawking. Out with it.

[video]

[gogoghostpowers]

It's--well, okay, I don't know what it is, but. It's a ghost thing--most ghosts can do the whole green glowy hand routine. I think it's like....an energy beam, or something? Because you can aim it and shoot it like a ray gun too.

Re: [video]

[greenisthenewblack]

...so I'm a ghost.

I thought you said we probably weren't... soul-whatchamacallits.

[She really doesn't want to be a ghost, Danny.]

[video]

[gogoghostpowers]

I guess so?

I don't really know--it just kinda depends on the pulses you get. Sometimes it looks like you're the only one who remembers some things, but then one day you get something that like five other people know about. Maybe that's what happened to you, too.

...i-if it helps, uh. Being a ghost really isn't so bad?

[greenisthenewblack]

Isn't so bad, he says.

Is it helpful if I say I think I picked it up from Aria? Damn if I know whether that means something. But from what I'm hearing, various kinds of glows aren't... unusual.

[gogoghostpowers]

Well, it's not! It just takes some getting used to, and some being careful.

I guess glowing isn't...that weird? I know some other people do it too. If it came from Aria, I think that makes sense--she and I are both in that soulbond group, so it all still kinda links together. ...somehow.

[greenisthenewblack]

Right. Sorry. Haven't had quite as much time as you to adjust to the idea that I might be dead, okay? You're sure about this?

[She has to hope that there's something Danny's missed, or doesn't know. He is just a kid, after all. But him recognizing the glow is... kinda damning.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Pretty sure. I don't know what else it would be. I mean, I'm like 90% sure by now that I'm a ghost, and ghosts are dead, so...

[greenisthenewblack]

Great. Just... great. I'm going to just... keep that in mind. Maybe see the clinic to be sure I'm not missing any organs. Yikes.

[Sorry, this is a lot to deal with right now.]

[gogoghostpowers]

That...might be a good idea, yeah. Just to be sure.

...Also check your blood too? I know mine's weird now, and I think a lot of other people in our soulbond group have weird blood now too. Apparently it's like the one thing we all have in common.

[greenisthenewblack]

Weird how? Is this something I'd need to get tested?

[This is something that definitely doesn't appeal to her.]

[gogoghostpowers]

I don't think so. Mostly it's just different colors. Mine's green and glowy now. A lot like how your hands were earlier, actually!

[greenisthenewblack]

Green... glowing... blood. Huh. Well, that's new. Yeah, I'll get that checked, somehow.

[...ick.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Y-yeah...good luck.

And uh, be careful too? If you do have green blood or something, it would be...pretty bad if you started bleeding in front of someone or something.

[greenisthenewblack]

I'll... keep that in mind, thanks. Because I so had plans to start bleeding all over the place. Really, Danny.

[gogoghostpowers]

I-it was more of a just in case thing!

[He also is just now realizing that maybe, the bleeding warning is more relevant to someone who gets the tar beat out of him on a regular basis than someone who isn't.]

[greenisthenewblack]

Riiiight. I'll keep that in mind until I can test it out for myself.