a simple question; (cw: death/dying discussion)

[icanhearscreams]

[An unsigned note appears on the bulletin board, written in extremely neat handwriting. There's a few smudges on it from erased lines, as if the author wrote it over and over again.]

Is anyone else here dead?

[Just five words. No signature. He'll see how this turns out.]

Comments

[icanhearscreams]

I see. There's a lot of people here who aren't, apparently.

It's just strange, having that mix. If it was all one or the other it would make sense, but...

[silkwaltz]

I can see how that would be strange, yes. But... back home it is not entirely unheard of, to find the dead and living mingling in a place. How and why tends to be the thing that differs, but it is possible.

[icanhearscreams]

That's not a thing where I'm from. The dead are just gone. No ghosts, no zombies, nothing.

[silkwaltz]

Truly? It is not nearly the same where I am from. How or why the dead return or remain depends on how they were caused to do so... it can be either a good thing, a bad thing, or simply... a thing that happens with no morality of either stripe behind it.

I've little experience with it myself, but the feel of that sort of place? I cannot say that this place matches it's air. But at the same time... I think we do ourselves a disservice in discovering more of this Library if we assume it to be anything like home.

[icanhearscreams]

Maybe it's not like home, but it has to have rules that it follows. Every place has to have some sort of logic.