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Nicholas wiped his palms on his pants and sat up straight, leaning over so his elbows rested on his thighs and sighing. "I don't know what it is, exactly," he admitted. What it really was was embarrassing. It was a rabbit hole, a desperate measure. Following broken links on Reddit into broken links on Tumblr and then finding a thread on Twitter that read like a teenager's manifesto of the reality of ghosts. It sounded ridiculous, the way it was written, a tirade of promises of the otherworldly, how one could shift if they just dreamt hard enough. But Nicholas had known that enough of it was real to believe the reports by people in the replies, empty profiles with no profile picture and little to connect them to any lived experience, any proof of reality. The type of stuff that anyone browsing just learning about magic would write off as obvious fakes. Nicholas himself had fallen into this trap, but had learned better over the years. But you still had to be thorough.