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ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and in the spirit of Halloween: August's GHOST TRICK event!

O-Bon festival: The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

Who you gonna call?: Remember “The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak”? Well, some of the local Gastly, Duskull, and Yamask seem to have gotten it into their heads that this kind of tomfoolery is somehow good medicine. If your trainer had someone in their life, someone now dead, that they have unresolved business with, these ghosties may take it upon themselves to play a little dress-up and follow your trainer around in the guise of said dead person until the issue is resolved. It’s their way of saying thank you for all the spiritual appeasement of the festival.

These ghosts won’t speak; Pokémon don’t talk, after all. So yes, your trainer is going to be followed around by some silent echo of their past who will not leave them alone.

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[Reiner is steadily keeping his gaze in front of him, just to avoid looking at the ghost too much. There are too many emotions running through his mind with just the appearance. Combined with the expression he had...

Without a word, he takes a pokeball from his belt, looking at it with a contemplative look in his eyes.]

I could and should. It's not like I have any sympathy to spare for the likes of him.

[Yet he's not throwing the ball. It's difficult, dealing with Marco and what they did. What he mostly did.]

He deserved to die just like all the others.

We did what we had to.

_{[Bertolt offers his arm a squeeze, his hand slowly slipping from his elbow to settle over the ball in Reiner's palm, his own fingers curling around it. They always did things together, right? If it's going to be this, he doesn't want it to be any different.

He may be a coward and weak-willed, but that doesn't mean he enjoys seeing his best friend in turmoil. How many times has he stood by and let Reiner handle everything himself? Too many to count for his liking. He should've done something when they had 'confronted' Marco, honestly. Maybe that would've helped.]}

...Right? We couldn't let him go. He would've told someone.

[The touch is calming. It feels good to know Bert is right there with him. That's how it had always been. They'd always been together. Even if Annie had held her distance, they hadn't.

Reiner was grateful for that.]

That's right. There wasn't any other option.

[Well, the only solution to the situation would have been not to say things that Reiner did while anyone could hear. A mistake he was careful not to repeat.]

We have nothing to regret.

_{[Maybe one day she'd close that distance, but he knows it's not easy. He knows he keeps a distance between himself and the rest of their comrades too, only letting a select few close and even fewer behind the walls he puts up around himself.

One of which died years ago.]}

Nothing at all.

_{[Bertolt hesitates, biting his lip as he shifts his attention over to Marco-- or, well, not-Marco. It's not really him and he knows it, but it's still...]}

...All we can do is make it painless in the future. When we go back.

_{[If they go back. The selfish side of him would rather stay in this world where it's safe. There was no real risk here. But, of course, the other side of him wants to return home. It's what they wanted all those years, wasn't it?]}

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