For DesireePhantom's 800th review. On what makes a person human.
Alive
January 30, 2013
After one hundred years, Phantom found it easier to pretend he was a full ghost. Not a living being with ties to fragile humans… just a projection of ectoplasmic cognizance.
His parents were gone. Jazz, Sam, and Tucker too, after full and happy lives. Their children's children had grown and died and had kids of their own.
Danny hadn't gotten close to this last generation. It would hurt too much when they were gone. They didn't know Phantom as anything more than the town's hero.
It was lonely, though…
…And if he didn't care, he wasn't really alive, was he?
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