Ghost town

I guess this is how ghosts must feel like - if ghosts are, as I want them to be, capable of feelings.

You quit one world and then you go back to manage a smooth departure, but there's something strange in you being there. It's like the universe is set and done and you are disturbing it by your mere presence. You don't really fit in here anymore, and they are embarrassed and don't know what to say when meeting you. People pass you without actually seeing you, because they long agreed with your passing on.

Sometimes it's actually funny being talked to as a ghost. Because people only want to ask you about your departure, as that's the only thing that really interests them. But as the departure is taboo for a ghost, they talk around it, about weather and stuff.

Fact is, I'm a friendly ghost after all. I didn't come back to haunt anyone, just hanging around and smiling to people. A Harry-Potter-Ghost, if you want, still part of this world as I still feel linked to it. Maybe that's why people smile back, although they don't feel connected after all.

And luckily, there are still the pets who know how to talk to ghosts.