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“I didn’t scare him,” Philip admitted.

Wren slurped her shake. “Exactly. You’re not haunting anything. No tragic love. No murdered landlord. No unsolved crossword puzzle. You’re just here . And frankly, you’re taking up a stool a living person could use.” philip mainlander

Philip hadn’t always been a ghost. In life, he had been a mapmaker—a meticulous craftsman who drew the borders of cities he would never visit. He had died the way he lived: quietly, of a quiet heart failure, in a quiet room above a quiet laundromat. No unfinished business, no great love lost, no secret to reveal. Just a gentle stop. “I didn’t scare him,” Philip admitted

Frank blinked. Then blew his nose.

And yet, here he was. Stuck.