#TimeTravelingGhost EP 9: Post 93: 1912, Titanic Part 2 of 2

#Wss366 Hamlet #TimeTravelAuthors 04/23. Do your characters test time travel?

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“Look over there,” Emily said, pointing across the room to a man in a slightly rumpled ship’s uniform.

“Yeah?” I replied, not sure of the significance.

"I think he's a ghost. See how everyone is ignoring him? Good heavens! That person just passed right through him.”

Sure enough, as he stepped away from the wall and headed toward the band, no one paid him any attention, not even when they brushed into him.

“Another ghost,” I thought. “So, there’s something to learn on the Titanic.”

I sat and watched as he reached his destination: a woman in a gauzy pink satin dress. The deep rose bodice complemented her complexion. She smiled and nodded as he approached. Despite the distance, I could see her speaking excitedly, eyes sparkling. This garnered a few stares that they both ignored.

“She can see him,” I said.

“Uh-huh. Perhaps she is a spirit, like you.”

The man offered his arm, and they walked back across the floor to an exit leading to the promenade deck, where they stood and talked.

I could tell at a glance that she didn’t belong in first class. She displayed too much uncultured enthusiasm for the band’s performance. Her unrefined gait caused her floor-length skirt to swish “unbecomingly.” I hoped I didn’t stick out as badly.

“Shall we join them?” I asked. “We might learn something.”

“Wait! Look!”

A steward had joined them and was talking to the woman, while the man hung back and watched.

“Behind the steward,” Emily said. “In the shadows.”

I looked past them to the silhouette of a rabbit in the passage beyond.

“I don’t think that it’s with them. It’s observing,” Emily continued.

“Why?”

“To see if they’re a threat? To assassinate them if they’re going to cause trouble, like Miss Dubois.”

“Should we warn them?”

“It doesn’t seem to be threatening them, but if the rabbit spots you, we’ll be in a real jam. Let’s just get out of here.”

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