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03:12 PM

Here she was once again, just as that shop assistant had told her to do when the possession of the object had successfully taken place. She still didn't know how it happened, as for it to have occurred, she had to have believed in it. And she didn't believe in ghosts, right?

Fine tendrils of sparkling silver hair danced mockingly in the breeze directly in Zanen's direct line of vision. The little girl slowly turned around, her bright green eyes coming into contact with the teenager's own light brown ones, with an ambiguous expression written upon her pale face. A single white wisp of vapor curled around the girl's hair, still contorted in the disconcerting shape of a ghost. If ghosts did not exist, how could one explain something such as this?

"Ni bu shi yi ge gui, dui ma?" Zanen murmured absentmindedly to the sprite, who was now solemnly observing the store that lay in front of them. The little silver-haired girl had been unconsciously floating towards it, as if she were drawn to the future that the sprawling interiors held, but at the sound of her guardian's voice, she halted.

"B' udui!" the sprite uttered in a harmonious voice, accompanied but a slight shake of the head.

It was times like these when Zanen felt as though she could almost comprehend the little wonder inside the urn. "B' udui?" she echoed questioningly, for the sprite seemed to respond better to Chinese than to English.

The little girl nodded. "B' udui," she confirmed, "wosh igui." Then, she pointed in an almost impatient manner to the shop, "Xia' ng qu!"

"You'e right, we shouldn't delay any longer now, should we?" the teenager sighed not for the first time wishing she could somehow grasp what the sprite was trying to convey. She hesitantly entered the store, securely gripping the urn with two hands to ensure that she wouldn't drop it again in the cluttered aisles, almost afraid of what it held in store for her.

Taking a deep breath, Zanen let two loud words leave her mouth, "I'm back!"