The Flavor of Revenge

[Kaschei]

Kaschei is fed up with Toivo. He will give the Green Party leader one last chance to cooperate or, the young green party leader will face the unpleasant consequences.
"Toivo, you will cooperate and translate this important spell, or our bargain will be nullified. I need this spell translated so I can use the kampa."

[Simona Weil]

(To Sherman Holmes)

My soul could not pass on to the paradise beyond for reasons I do not understand. I was told it had something to do with Ukko and that paradise has sanctions on human souls due to his actions on Earth.

Heaven sounds more like the UN than anything I even imagined.

Since I have to wait, I decide I will visit some people on Earth in spirit form.

I decide I will visit my employer.

I appear in his home and begin looking for him.

"Sherman...are you here? Sherman...."

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

Sherman had been asleep after about a week of spying on Red Infinity and investigating unsolved murders that were at the hands of Red Infinity. There was a large book of information he had dug up. Simona's spirit woke him up.

"Wh-who?" Holmes asked, sitting up and looking around with sleepy eyes. It was then that he saw the ghostly figure if Simona. "S-Simona?" he asked nervously.

Holmes was a very level headed and cool thinking guy. He was never one to panic, but the sight of his former maid's ghost before him was almost enough to make him scream right there. ALMOST, but almost doesn't cut it.

[Simona Weil]

"Please do not be afraid. Can you actually see me, or is it only my voice that you hear?" He looks so frightened, and I didn't mean to wake him.

"I wanted to say that I am sorry that I can no longer work for you. But I am sure you understand."

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

"Oh--yes. Yes, o-o-of course." Holmes said, fumbling with the words. He stood up and began circling her.

"I can see you, but you're... like glass. I can see straight through you... hmmmm and I wonder..." after a brief pause he stuck his arm out to see if he would touch her arm or go right through it.

[Simona Weil]

"I also have a favor to ask you. I came to work here since I wanted to buy a printing press for my friend Zinn. I was wondering if maybe you could buy it for her, and tell her that it was meant to be a gift from me. If you do that, I will try my best to in someway repay you. I can no longer work, since I can not move objects, but I could...scare away unwanted visitors..."

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

Holmes nodded. "Of course, anything."

As his hand touched her arm it went through it and he quirked a brow.

"How peculiar..."

[Simona Weil]

I float across the room and sigh. I feel hungry and envious of life.

"Could you get me a glass of milk? I feel so thirsty. It is a strange other worldly thirst. I never felt anything so strong in my living years."

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

"Wait--if objects just move through you then won't the milk just get spilled all over my floor?" he asked after he had the milk. "If you wouldn't mind, please drink it over the tile?"

[Simona Weil]

I try to move the glass and can only slide it a little before it falls out of my hand and spills all over the floor.

"I would like to learn how to move things. This is so frustrating."

I frown for a moment.

"How have you been?"

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

There is a slight pause in the conversation as Holmes stares down at the milk. He glares at it, as if that would somehow make it go back into the glass. He then looks back up at Simona with a saddened expression.

"I've been exhausted. Lady Blue is working my tail off on getting dirt on Red Infinity." Holmes said, gesturing to the large BOOK of dirt he dug up.

[Simona Weil]

"That's too bad that you must work so hard. Have you learned anything interesting?"

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

Holmes nodded. He shuddered recollecting some of the memories.

"Among the most interesting things I learned... Lady Violet can shapeshift. She changed into a man and engaged in intercourse with Erika Faust to produce Iris Faust. Iris was only created to operate a machine called Little Sister. What it does, I do not know, but they've devoted an entire human life to it..." Holms said, shaking his head.

[Simona Weil]

"That is terrible. Such a horrible thing that government does."

My light flickers in and out for a moment.

"What else could have I done? I am dead now. I thought I could reason with Lady Blue...I tried and failed..." I say, changing the subject.

[Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes]

"Something tells me you could still do something." Holmes says with a cheeky grin.