[Geist] Resolution (Destruction)

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He knows what happens now. She'll see her parents and run to them, want to touch them; she'll reach across to them and in that moment she'll cross the line and he will be bound to act.

The chain will coil around her and drag her back to him.

Her neck will snap without effort and she's new enough dead to think for a moment that that has killed her; long enough for claws and teeth to finish the job.

Inches from her redemption, Becky Scott will die again; ripped into shreds of witless ectoplasm.

"Can you do alone?" he asks Kate, and he tells himself that it's because he needs to be here to help the Mistress with the abmortal.

"Why not? Besides, I'll have Becky here for company."

He nods, a slight frown still on his brow. "Thank you." He tells himself that the relief is for a journey not needed.

"No problem."

"Find ghost crossing line, tell me; I deal." As he says it, he can almost feel Becky's ectoplasmic flesh rending beneath his nails, and it doesn't feel good. Only after he has said it does he realise that he is giving Kate a warning, not making her a promise.

Only after they're gone does he let himself admit that he hopes she understood, and that if Becky does cross the line when she gets home, Kate won't ever tell him.