#22 prompt obituaries27

[nat-a-nat]

27. Soul Shredder

He looked human. But then, most monsters do.

He looked human. But then, most monsters do.

He was surprisingly full of life for something dead. Ironically tan skin, looking healthy compared to the sickly greens and blues of other ghosts. He was expressive, could imitate emotions, comprehended speech. And, despised what the Fentons say, she was sure he wasn't mindless. His actions were too purposeful to be pure instinct. 

Yes—though Valerie—Phantom looked deceptively human. Acted like it, too. Just a few little details giving away the monstrosity hiding behind the facade of a boy. Hair too white to be blond, eyes too toxic to be green, something too otherwordly to be a person.

Was is posible, she wondered, for it to be mistaken for one? If its mouth were closed to conceal its fangs, if it was day and its ghosty glow wouldn't be as noticeable as it is at night. Could it fool humans? Could Valerie confuse it with one?

She preferred to think she couldn't be tricked. She was a ghost hunter. The best one in Amity. She knew her enemy, she wouldn't fall for its charade. 

Phantom was a ghost. A notorious one at that. But sitting on top of a building staring at the sky, he looked more like a kid than anything. Valerie could see his face through the spyglass in her visor. He had an expression of absolute child-like wonder, as if the stars held the secrets of the universe. 

Maybe for him, they did.

Looking at him now? Aiming the Soul Shredder at the monster with a face of a boy, she almost felt guilty. Well, almost.

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