Jack watched James move around the kitchen using his infrared camera to see as he asked a series of typical investigation questions and statements.
"Can you show yourself?"
"Move something."
"No, and no" Jack replied jokingly as he rolled his eyes but James didn't hear him.
"Come on ask some more interesting questions, be different than the others." Jack said out loud.
James didn't hear him but it seemed he was on the same wavelength as he decided to try something different since his typical investigation questions weren't getting any responses.
"What do you think of the family that lives here?"
"Sickeningly sweet." Jack replied jokingly and this time James seemed to have heard him loud and clear as he looked toward where Jack was standing.
After James heard Jack's response he quickly pointed the camera toward the direction he heard the voice and captured an orb floating there.
"Jack is that you?"
"Can you come closer to me?" James asked much to Jack's surprise.
Jack wondered what James could see, so he did as he asked and started going toward him to try and peek at the screen to see if he could see himself.
Unfortunately, as James saw the orb come closer it vanished halfway to him.
Meanwhile, when Jack got close enough he couldn't see himself on screen.
'I hope they show the family the evidence they get so I can see how I look to them.' Jack hopefully thought as he was curious how they perceived him.
"Did I see you just now?" James started his questioning again.
"Yeah." Jack replied and saw James react to him.
"Yeah? is that what you just said? So I did see you just now." James asked confirming because the voice was soft-spoken but sounded like it was right next to him.
Then James pointed his equipment to the spot where he heard that voice but didn't see anything.
"Do you like the family that lives here?" James decided to ask more questions about the family.
"Yeah, I guess." Jack did think they were a typical good family and answered as he wandered off around the kitchen.
James waited a while but didn't hear any response so he asked another question, however unknown to him his infrared camera did catch a voice.
"Why do you scare the family?" James asked.
"It's funny, duh." Jack sarcastically answered, he didn't think explaining that he gets stronger because of their fear was a good explanation.
Fortunately, James did hear this response loud and clear.
"So you find scaring them funny, huh." James was amused by how humane this spirit was, sometimes it's hard to relate and he forgets that some ghosts were human once.
It's hard to comprehend something he doesn't know so he subconsciously forgets and doesn't think that someday this might be him.
When some people think of ghosts they also think of demons or monsters, so they reject them.
"Have you met any other ghosts?" James thought of asking this when he remembered there were all kinds of spirits and apparently he was the only one haunting this house.
"No." Jack answered but his response wasn't captured by any equipment or heard by James.
After a bit of waiting for a response, but not getting anything, James decided to move on to questions about Jack himself,
"Do you want to move on?"
"Not particularly." Jack didn't really want to go to heaven or hell or any kind of afterlife depending on your religious beliefs right now, maybe he will eventually want to see if they exist but he was kind of enjoying his current life as a spirit in the world of the living.
Jack saw James suddenly freeze and thought he heard him but it was actually because James started seeing a mist fly around as Jack wandered around as he answered James's questions.
"Are you walking around me?" James asked nervously when he saw the mist circle him in the kitchen and then stop when he froze.
Jack realized he didn't hear him but saw him using the camera and decided to not even bother answering because he obviously saw him move around somehow.
After he saw the mist dissipate James gathered himself and moved on to other questions.
"Is there a heaven or hell?" James thought to ask questions about life after death since he thought a ghost would know a bit.
"I don't know, I haven't been there." Jack replied but unfortunately while all this questioning and answering happened time had passed and the witching hour had just ended so the dimensional barrier thickened.
After James asked a few more questions that Jack answered but James couldn't hear, James saw that three-quarters of his shift was about to be over.
James wanted to change it up and went to get some other equipment for his final half.
Jack watched James leave while curiously thinking about why James could hear him for a little while without him spending any energy.
After thinking but not being able to come up with an answer Jack regained some energy but he was getting bored so he decided to go find something to watch on tv.
While he walked to the living room he checked his status.
[
Name: Jack
Race: Ghost (Phantom)
Lvl: 5 (25%)
Energy: 49/90
Regen: 12/h
Abilities: Spirit healing
Haunt location buff: none
]
'Not bad for not having to spend any energy.' in Jack's opinion any free experience is always good.
After checking his status he made it to the living room and picked up the remote, bringing it to the couch and sitting down before hitting the power button.
He knowingly gave the stationed camera in the room some nice footage and also made the forum go crazy.
The audience and James at the nerve center watched as Jack turned the tv on and flipped through channels before he found one he liked and stopped, then he checked his status and realized he spent all the energy he just regenerated just looking for an interesting show.