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Who: Alex Reagan and Richard Strand.
What: Surprise, your boyfriend died and didn't say anything. Oops.
When: Today, I think?
Where: Close to the domes where they live.
Warnings: Ghost log!

As she often is, Alex is out and about working her way through the market place and back to the domes where she and Richard live. She’s been thinking, because of course she has about what Seregil has said about not wanting to leave the ghost of Alec alone and she knows that she’d be the same way about it even if both Richards would argue that there wasn’t such things as ghosts, Alex. Maybe back home that might have been true but here? Here it definitely isn’t. The ghosts of the Sphere are all around them and honestly Alex is just grateful that she hadn’t run into herself as one.

There are definitely some things that are too weird even for Alex Reagan to be able to handle.

Another thing that she’s grateful for is the fact that nothing like that had happened to Richard. Honestly, she’s just as terrible at loss as he is, even if she’s never experienced it to such a degree has he has. Granted, very few people ever have lost like Richard Strand did, so much so that for a long time (until she’d wormed her way into his heart) and even then, here he’d lost her for a while. Later would think that she’d summoned him up, when she realizes after but for now, she just sees a slightly rumpled Richard walking towards her.

Shifting her bag and her coffee, Alex just speeds up towards him, and her voice is quiet. “Hey. Are you okay?”

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Richard is, confused, no concerned, no, confused. He didn't remember being here, but there seemed to be a lot that he didn't remember. It was ... what day was it again? He couldn't remember even the slightest thing about what had happened. There was the demon, the catacombs. Those were things that happened and he remembered, but what happened after? That was less clear, fuzzier than it had any right to be.

It was Alex that pushed him out of his confusion. Alex was a clear and rememberable thing. She was tangible. She was talking. It took him a few moments to register her before he responded. "What day is it?"

Alex just blinks at him, unable or unwilling or both to hide the confusion that is on her face as she watches his own. Given everything over the last four years now, she'd like to think that she knows him and his expressions well but this one doesn't appear very often. Less often is the question that he asks her. Feeling like something walked across her grave for a moment, Alex just steps closer to him, her eyes peering up into his face.

"It's Wednesday." The words come softly and but with more than a little bit of a sense of unease. "November 27th." A pause and then she asks, reaching out to touch his cheek. "What's going on, Richard?"

"I seem to have lost time." He doesn't want to concern her with these things. Alex often goes overboard when it comes to - well, anything. He doesn't need her making demon or psychic connections about this too. "I'm sure it's just due to lack of sleep or overworking."

"Richard, you were fine last night. And the night before that. You slept. I know because I was there." The confusion in her voice is shifting more fully to worry, because it can't not. "And you had a short day at work today. What's going on? This isn't like you at all. Did you like fall down and hit your head or something?" It's not a joke--Alex is being deadly serious and thinking that it's something like some sort of concussion or something.

"I'm fine." It's an insistence that he's not sure he can really back up. He's lost time and apparently it's not because of overwork or lack of sleep. He doesn't recall falling and there are no indications that he has had any sort of injury in the past few days. "I'm sure it's something simple."

Alex doesn't look at all like she believes that, and the question is in her voice along with the disbelief. "Something simple. Like anything here is simple." And that's when Alex reaches up to touch his face with her fingers and they simply go through it. Gasping loudly, she just looks up at him in horror.

"You... You're a ghost. What happened?!"