sorry hank doesn't believe in ghosts

[donotlick]

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[donotlick]

[ yeeeeah that's sure a thing. Hank shakes his head, holding back the tears. How has it been three years and he's still not over this? ]

Yeah, it was... He needed surgery. The only doctor who could operate was fucking high. And the androids... they couldn't do it. They couldn't save him.

[itwasfeyt]

[It's only been a couple years for Maya to mourn a death. Or, has it been longer?]

...I'm sorry. I lost someone really important to me not too long ago, too. It was... worse than anything I went through, at the time.

[And she dislikes that fact.]

[donotlick]

[ Hank nods, numbly. ]

There's nothing worse. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him.

[itwasfeyt]

I know there's not a day that wouldn't have been better if my sister was still around.

[Or her mother, for that matter. But that's a whole other can of worms.]

At least I got to speak to her, later.

[donotlick]

[ Hank is totally there with her for like half a second until.... uh. ]

What, what?

[itwasfeyt]

...Oh, right.

See, I'm a spirit medium, and members of my family are too, so we can channel the dead.

[like ya do]

[donotlick]

The fuck? Are you serious!?

[ That sounds... really crazy? ]

[itwasfeyt]

Yup! ...A lot of people think it's fake.

[She doesn't sound too surprised that Hank probably thinks so to.]

Akira thinks I'm in a cult too. Can you believe that?

[donotlick]

Uh, I mean... no offense but we don't have that occult shit back home. If I hadn't met a fucking alien I'd probably think you were nuts.

[ He looks her straight in the eyes, though. ]

You're not kidding though, are ya? It'd be a fucking shit joke to make.

[itwasfeyt]

It's not... [Hmmmmn.] I mean, I am an acolyte, but calling it occult is kind of... dark.

[For communing with the spirits, that is.]

No, I'm telling the truth, one hundred and ten percent! I could even show you how it's done, if I could, that is.

[donotlick]

I mean, we're talking about talking to dead people, Maya. That's kinda dark.

[ But he would sign up in an INSTANT to talk to his son, so you have his attention. ]

Yeah, okay. I mean, you don't really strike me as the ghosts & goblins type, so you're either dead serious or a really good liar. And I doubt it's the last one.

[ Maya is a good girl. ]

[itwasfeyt]

[It can be arranged! Probably even free of charge.]

I work with a lawyer. Trust me, I'm terrible at keeping up a lie.

[But she is a good girl!!]

I know I don't look the part right now, but if I had my robes and stuff, I'd definitely look like a proper medium.

[donotlick]

[ Maya, he would cry so hard he might actually get closure, please channel Cole for him... ]

Hah! That so? You know lawyers are slimiest dudes around, right?

[ Not in Ace Attorney, Hank! ]

Shit, you got robes and everything? You must be pretty legit.

[itwasfeyt]

[She will! As soon as they both escape.]

Nah, Phoenix Wright might be kind of silly at times, and have strange opinions about ladders... [Maya, there's supposed to be a point] but he's probably the best lawyer I know, and he always fights for those that were wrongly accused.

[Nods!] Yup! Robes, prayer beads, everything a member of the Fey clan needs!

[donotlick]

[ Please.... ]

Well, that's good. Guys like that ain't too bad, but it's kinda my job as a cop to hate lawyers. Just lettin' you know.

[ Goodness, that sounds... complex. ]

Damn. All that, and you've got a whole clan doing it too?

[itwasfeyt]

...Yeah, come to think of it, a lot of cops don't seem to like us, or turn out to be murderers. Except Detective Gumshoe, that is.

[It is.]

Yup. Well... Not everyone. Right now, only my cousin and me can actually channel spirits.

[donotlick]

The hating part comes with the territory. The murder doesn't, obviously.

[ Hank's a good bad-cop!! ]

Huh. So it's some kinda... bloodline thing?

[itwasfeyt]

Yup. My ancestor, Ami Fey, invented the technique! The women in the family have been training to do it for centuries! Some of us are better at it than others, my little cousin is like a prodigy.

[Because she is, even if Maya has more raw power than her.]

[donotlick]

Damn. How old's your little cousin?

[ This is a lot, but Maya seems too earnest to be making it all up. ]

[itwasfeyt]

Pearly's only eight! [...] I think. It's weird remembering things sometimes.

[donotlick]

Shit, she's just a kid. And she can already talk to ghosts?

[itwasfeyt]

It's not so much talking to them as... asking them to posses your body for a little while, so they can talk to the living.

[Normal stuff!!]

[donotlick]

Okay, sure, what the fuck!?

[itwasfeyt]

What...? It's a process a lot of mediums have done!

[donotlick]

You... let yourself get possessed? Like, you let a ghost inside you?