Blacktail Deer Plateau Now you know, now you know

Her imagination ran away with her in the brief moment that Lasher looked past her. She imagined him telling her ghosts were imaginary, that they didn't exist and only fools looked for them. She imagined him saying she was seeing things. She even imagined that he compared her to a younger Tytonidae and shook his head regretfully at how childish Saena was for her age, this last being proof of how little she really knew about Lasher.

She was therefore shocked when he said yes, and flabbergasted when he said "many". Were there that many ghosts in the world? Saena immediately hoped there wasn't; what if she saw them, too, and then she started seeing more ghosts than real wolves?

"I dunno," she said, more slowly and calmly than anything else she'd said thus far. "I saw a bear. A little one, but it was see through and its eyes were really creepy." She blinked up at her father's former lover, awaiting confirmation that it was indeed a ghost so she could swoon and faint, or something equally dramatic to match the realization that she was seeing the dead.