It appeared that the female ghost was very, very desperate to reunite with her family again. Thinking about how desperate that she was, it could have been the reason and drive force to her ‘returning’ to the mortal realm in this night close to Halloween. If he remembered right, in the night of Halloween, all deceased would walk the earth once more as phantoms, ghosts, just like this individual, where they would either cause harm or hope. It would be a night of the dead, and surely one to remember. He didn’t have experience with things like that before, though, because despite living in Worth Woodsea, there had never been a carnival like this one before. In fact, he had never seen a ghost before either; that too was a first time for him. Obviosuly, it scared him at first, but he began feeling more and more compassionate with this specific one after her words earlier. Looking at Ana, he noticed that she really looked more tired than usual, and she stated that it had been like this since her training with Alisa. He remembered a certain, white-haired girl speak out that name to the black-haired girl back at Pegasus Beach, specifically where they were having tug-of-war. Alisa was his opponent, in which he realized the obviosity in that Ana knew her. However, she sounded a bit too dry for her face; despite the smile, what her words expressed didn’t sound like accompanying a smile at most times.
The ghost had explained that she had a family of four; her, most likely a husband, and then the two last would presumably and approximately her children. Ana had planned that they should have split up, her trying to look around the first half of the forest and Hyōen in the other half. Nodding, he quickly turned around and gestured the ghost to follow him as they would approach the shrubbery of Worth Woodsea. The Fire Mage had enough experience about these parts to find around, even in gloom and dusk, as he would firmly push away bushes and branches that stood in the way. However, given that the ghost went right through them, it felt like an unneeded gesture, in which he simply leapt around instead. The forest resembled that of a nightmare in the dark, and his eyes were on their guards all the time in case if any beast would try to attack him in shelter of the night.
He could see a light. It was faint, but his rather tired eyes spotted them just enough to be able to pinpoint its location. He quickly rushed whilst having noted that he might have seen someone, in which the ghost followed troop right behind him. Once he braked his feet in the dirty ground, he spotted the bright, ghastly remain of a dead child; it was a small boy, whose eyes began filling with tears by their presence. However, as soon as he saw his mother, his tears exploded as he had went out for a hug. After the touching reunion with mother and child, Hyōen did what Ana had planned and returned back to his cottage without obstacles.
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