"This is a bad idea," one of the boys whined, and Tifa didn't bother to look up and see who.
"Then go away," she said, hard but absent, and though they shuffled a little, nobody moved. Carefully, Tifa drew a line across the paper on the floor in front of her - side to side, then another top to bottom. She set her pencil down after writing yes and no on the lines in her careful round letters, sat back on her heels and let out a breath.
"Charlie Charlie, are you there?" she asked, just a little too loud for her normal speaking voice. For a long moment nothing happened, and one of the boys let out a sigh of relief - then the pencil juddered, twitched, and started to roll around in a circle until the worn lead pointed to yes.
Tifa gasped, her heart starting to pound; this was it, something was there! Mount Nibel was full of ghosts and passing spirits, on their way to the sunshine on the other side - maybe one of them had seen her Mama, or maybe this was Mama right now-!
"Charlie Charlie, are you my Mama?" she asked breathlessly; the pencil wobbled again, then started to roll - faster and faster and faster, the paper under it scuffing and starting to curl up at the edges and the air was starting to move and the edges of the paper were starting to catch fire-
A man's deep, dark chuckle echoed around the room under the boys starting to shriek, and the pencil scored right through - No.
FFVII, Games To Play In The Dark
"Then go away," she said, hard but absent, and though they shuffled a little, nobody moved. Carefully, Tifa drew a line across the paper on the floor in front of her - side to side, then another top to bottom. She set her pencil down after writing yes and no on the lines in her careful round letters, sat back on her heels and let out a breath.
"Charlie Charlie, are you there?" she asked, just a little too loud for her normal speaking voice. For a long moment nothing happened, and one of the boys let out a sigh of relief - then the pencil juddered, twitched, and started to roll around in a circle until the worn lead pointed to yes.
Tifa gasped, her heart starting to pound; this was it, something was there! Mount Nibel was full of ghosts and passing spirits, on their way to the sunshine on the other side - maybe one of them had seen her Mama, or maybe this was Mama right now-!
"Charlie Charlie, are you my Mama?" she asked breathlessly; the pencil wobbled again, then started to roll - faster and faster and faster, the paper under it scuffing and starting to curl up at the edges and the air was starting to move and the edges of the paper were starting to catch fire-
A man's deep, dark chuckle echoed around the room under the boys starting to shriek, and the pencil scored right through - No.