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Okay so at this point I can kind of accept the memories..I even kind of understand getting back powers. But..this..

[He holds up a sleek black flute with a red tassel dangling from the end of it.]

I don't even know how to play the flute and don't really have a whole lot of interest in learning. Does anyone know if I'll just magically wake up some day with an ability to play or should I just put this up on my shelf as some sort of decoration?

[He sets it back down and then picks up a piece of paper that is a few inches wide and about eight inches long with red designs scrolled across it.]

Also, anyone know what this is because I've been drawing them all morning and have a stack of various ones now that I'm afraid to touch in case I light the place on fire by accident. I just moved in here so I'd rather not mess it up. I'm really not mentally prepared to start having magic abilities..

[Is he stressed out? He might be slightly stressed..he's had far too many memories hitting him lately and now with the addition of these magic paper pieces and a flute he is starting to panic that the whole controlling ghosts things is in his very near future.]

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[He read the characters on the paper since he can read it, write, and speak it]

I'll translate for you. The first one said, Spirit Attraction. The second one said, repel. The other said, barrier.

[He reaches up and rubs his face. This is too much.]

I'm guessing I'm supposed to say or do something and they will do..what is written on them. I don't mind barrier against something but I sure as hell don't want to summon anything.

[He reads a little more once he has a better look on the video]

Let see...that one said, "Fire" and that one said, "Seal".

[Chin hands as he stares at the man on the video and see a resemblance. He wonders why his past life self does everything he can to save him]

You know, I have a dream. That people use paper talismans like those. They would chant the character on the paper and throw it.

Fire...great. So I really could burn down my apartment.

[He is just going to put all these stacks away in a desk drawer and lock it away once the call is over.]

Really don't think I need these things in modern day New York. I'm not some sort of crime fighter or vigilante.

Well, I wouldn't know if they are any useful.

The talismans you have are similar in my dream. The people who creates them are called Cultivators. They fight with swords during battle and they use the paper talismans on monsters or on each other.

So I think they're a type of weapon.

Well I definitely do not need a weapon. So..I'm going to try and resist making any more of these and destroy these before I accidentally set one off.

[But he does listen to the description of the Cultivators and he gets a little bit of a twinge of familiarity in the descriptions.]

I guess i might have been something similar to a cultivator in the past life.

I suggest you save them, but if you don't want them then you can give it to me? I want to study them. I major in History, so you might be throwing away an important piece of history that needs to be preserved and saved for research.

Do you think you might have been? Do you have any idea what they do?

My research led me to think they do some kind of mystical practice based on daoism.

I don't know what I was. All I know is it has something to do with ghosts.

[And he doesn't like it. He's had far too many memories at this point that are him talking to, summoning or dealing with all manner of crazy things.]

[He can't tell him, not yet, because even he wasn't sure. In his recent dream, his past life, he came to study something and it has to do with cultivation]

Sound spooky, but those items you have, it's an important clue in what you used to do.

Well..right now they are pretty useless. I guess until I have a few more memories they are just going to be odd trinkets.

[Particularly the flute since he doesn't know how to play it.]

[It takes Wangji a few moments of googling it]

That flute is a bamboo flute called the dizi.

[With amusement]

Why not take flute lessons? I started with a recorder and play in elementary school. It's easy to learn.

I don't really have time to dedicate to such a thing..

[He is musically inclined so it probably wouldn't take him long to pick up the basics but he really doesn't have much interest in learning a musical instrument. It's not like he can use it in his show.]

Besides..I've seen what this thing can do in my memories and I'm not interested in being able to do that.

[Color him curious, but he has to ask]

What the flute can do in your memories? It is a magical flute?

I'm not sure if its considered magic..or just evil. It seemed to be able to summon ghosts.

[Which is terrifying and he doesn't want to be able to do such a thing.]

Resentment energy. The thoughts of the dead.

[He corrects him, and then realized what he said, when his memories start to bleed through as the words came out of his mouth. Oops.]

Nevermind. Better put it away. That sound like a powerful tool to use. Though I must tell you, I do believe ghosts are real.

[Resentful energy..that sounds even worse. He is definitely pushing that flute further away.]

Yeah they are definitely real..if my memories are any indication anyway.

In the memory, the person who plays the flute was you? I find that hard to believe. That sounds like necromancy to me as such magic exists in fantasy novels or in the occult books.

There is still a lot I don't know about the memories. But from what I have seen, necromancy is definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

Well, I guess you shouldn't practice that creepy stuff. That's sensible.

[He's not going to tell him about his dream. That in the dream, he's trying to stop him from losing control on the dark path.]

I intend to avoid it at all costs. I don't want anything to do with it. I'm perfectly happy without any powers.

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