Secrets
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Misao Daidôji has been able to see ghosts for as long as he can remember. When he was a child they scared him and he chose to ignore his gift, told himself they weren't there. He became so good at ignoring that, as time passed, he forgot that he could see them at all.
However, there was one ghost that would not be ignored, could not be ignored – that was always there, at the edge of his awareness, even when it wasn't present.
He watches now, as Mayura waves goodbye and leaves the house to visit her wired friends. She passes straight through the barely visible form of her mother as she runs out of the door, blissfully ignorant of everything she cannot see. The woman smiles sadly at nothing before she leaves as well and for once, Misao is grateful that there are some little secrets he and his daughter do not share.
