[It’s not that Vanessa isn’t used to the strange and unusual. Actually, she’s well-acquainted with the strange and unusual. Probably (definitely) more so than the average person. But this whole thing is off the charts bizarro-world.
Strangely enough, a dead body, even one that barely resembles a human being anymore, is something tangible she can grasp. That most outside wouldn’t do anything but slip Through her fingers. Whatever’s in the mist is dark shapes and strange noises. Comparatively, this is easy.
She’d gone to get garment bags from a nearby clothing store — there probably wasn’t a person anywhere who’d expected them to be used like this — and comes up behind Katsuya with a slightly grossed-out but steely and determined expression, unzipping one of the bags.]
“I brought these. Figured it’d keep the next person from stumbling over it.”
[It, because it was hard to think of the remains as a person.]
The mistakes of others
Strangely enough, a dead body, even one that barely resembles a human being anymore, is something tangible she can grasp. That most outside wouldn’t do anything but slip
Through her fingers. Whatever’s in the mist is dark shapes and strange noises. Comparatively, this is easy.
She’d gone to get garment bags from a nearby clothing store — there probably wasn’t a person anywhere who’d expected them to be used like this — and comes up behind Katsuya with a slightly grossed-out but steely and determined expression, unzipping one of the bags.]
“I brought these. Figured it’d keep the next person from stumbling over it.”
[It, because it was hard to think of the remains as a person.]