So, this is chapter 2. Sorry it's so short!
Warning:Flames will be used to further pyrokenetic abilities!!
"So this is your equipment? I haven't used all this stuff since I was in school. Thermograph, monitors, infrared, super-high-speed, this stuff is pretty high-tech." Mai seemed to be at home surrounded by all this expensive equipment.
"If you don't use all this, what do you use?" asked Monk-san.
"We use these." Yuki said, carrying a box. She reached in and pulled out a little ball. "Their called 'Private Eyes'. Their little cameras that install themselves. They can also have microphones. They won't be on the market for another year or so, but since Mai and I invented them, we obviously get to use them whenever we want to."
"How do they install themselves?" Lin was curious.
"We just put them on the floor, run the software, and they take care of the rest. Each one has a chip and a reader inside, so that there's never more than one in a room, unless it's really big, then it will ask how many you want in there. Normally the most that you would need is two." Mai answered his question. "The information is automatically fed into the computer, where we get data readings and charts, as well as video and audio surveillance."
"Wow! I'm impressed! You came up with that system all by yourselves?" Monk-san wasn't the only one who was impressed.
"Well, the idea was my mom's. I promised her before she died that I would finish it for her. Since Yuki was my aunt's adopted daughter, she and mom had been working on it to begin with. We just finished it, perfected it, patented it, and sold it to a company, on the condition that we could have as many as we want for whatever we wanted."
"So, your dad is okay with you doing this?" Ayako asked.
"My dad is dead. I don't have a single living blood relative."
"Not one?" Masako sound as if she was sorry for Mai.
"No. But it's all right! I've got Yuki and my job, I've got everything I really need in life; I miss my parents sometimes, but I don't like crying, and neither did mom!" Mai's cheerfulness proved to be contagious.
"Why don't you prove those 'Private Eyes' actually work?" Kazuya wanted to see this.
"All ready done. All that has to be done now is to monitor the screen, and do all the technical stuff. You know, seeing if we can't get the spirit to move on, and if we can't talk it into leaving, exorcising it." Yuki was very fast. In the time all that talking had gone on, she had ran the program and set up the cameras.
"Whoa!" and other exclamations of the sort came from the SPR staff. Sure enough, there on the computer screen were images of every room in the house, excluding the bathrooms, of course!
Later...
The members of SPR came into the Base after having set up equipment and seeing if there were spirits in the house. The two girls were there. Yuki was looking over a pad of paper. They didn't realize that Kazuya and the rest were back, and continued their conversation.
"This doesn't look like it will be a particularly easy case, Mai."
"Good. I like challenges. With that other research team here, things should be very interesting. After all, the one seems to be highly susceptible to possession. If these spirits are really this desperate to leave, they may try to use her as a tool."
"Who may try to use me as a tool?!" Masako was upset at being talked about.
"Oh, hello. We were just talking about the spirits in this house. How's everything going? There was a 7degree drop in temperature a few minutes ago in the den." Mai seemed unfazed by Masako's outburst. Rather, she seemed to calm down quite a bit.
"You never answered my question!" Masako was beginning to see red.
"Didn't she hear any of the conversation? They stood there for what? four minutes?" there goes not knowing they were there.
"Mai, answer her question, please. Her thoughts are ever so slightly macabre in nature."
"Very well. It's pointless though. The spirits, of course! Who else?" Mai's voice held a degree of incredulousness in it.
"We have a drawing of what it looks like, done by our dear Mai. Rather macabre thing to look at, is it not?" Yuki handed the pad of paper to Kazuya. The image was indeed macabre, having a likeness to a bloody mess. Masako looked like she would be sick.
"That explains the smell of blood." was all she could say.
"Here. Take two of these. It should help that headache that's coming on to dissipate faster." Yuki handed Masako a small bottle. The label read "Acetaminophen'.
"What is it?" Masako asked.
"It's a pain reliever. In America, we often just call it 'Tylenol©'." -!!