Suddenly a jolt pain hit me through my whole body. I've felt electric shocks before, when I've attempted to repair domestic appliances. No matter how good the guide is, wrapping insulation tape over wires with frayed casings, is something you end up learning by experience. The pain subsided quickly, lingering in the eyes for a while. As I was still trying to open them, I heard Diana's voice: "Thank you… I got what I wanted… For a while now… My first kiss… from you… Thank you… Sorry…" I finally was able to open my eyes and saw her still sitting in the chair with her head hanging back into the aisle between the seats. Somehow I knew – she was gone. One arm was hanging into the aisle, another – still held onto a large purse on her knees. I could see her mouth still parted and her eyes now frozen, looking into something beyond the limits of the living.

Then I saw a text floating before me "Necromancer – Initialized. Level – 1" followed by some indicators which I didn't care about at that point. I looked back at her and saw several texts appearing – the emerald pendant now was marked "Energy store – level 10, filled – 0" the earring was an"Energy store – level 1, Filled – 0" the purse got a "Sub-dimensional storage – level 20, filled – 0" and the next label actually made me tear-up – it was floating over the poor girl's head reading "Corpse – Fresh". I reached out with my hand under her neck and carefully brought her over to the center of the seat, upright with hands on her knees. Then I closed her eyes and mouth and did what the books always have their characters do in cases like these – I've kissed her on the forehead. A text message appeared – "Necro Energy collected" and I heard "Do me a favor, before I go, can you get a handkerchief from my purse and wipe the lipstick smudge from my cheek?" I turned and saw a shadowy outline of Diane floating next to me with a label "Ghost – Fresh". "Yes, Sure… Of cause…" I was not sure about taking the purse as her hands were laying over it, so I've opened it up as little as I could trying to find the handkerchief but not succeeding. "It should be deeper and to your right," the Ghost have suggested. As I have realized that my attempts to cause the smallest disturbance aren't working out, I've removed the clasps, and opened the purse entirely. That moment her fingers touched the inside of the purse and the body disappeared. The text floating over the bag now read "Sub-dimensional storage – level 20, filled – 1". Diana smiled, "I wanted to be with you and now it seems I will – you can carry me around anywhere you go. Thanks for the kiss. Was it good?" I've smiled back – "The best of all the kisses I've ever had". She smiled again – "First time too?" – I nodded – "You know me well…" She moved like sighing – "I wish I could stay but I gotta go… We all do – see?" I looked around and saw ghosts floating all over the bus. Seems like everyone who was waiting for the bus just recently, was now labeled "Ghost – Fresh". A few seemed shocked suspended over their bodies, several chatted in small groups and a ghost of one of the class jerks was chasing a ghost of a girl around. Suddenly a Cloud appeared in the front of the bus and the ghosts started slowly moving toward it. I've turned toward Diana and she looked me in the eyes, smiled, turned around and rushed toward the Cloud cutting our goodbyes. I jumped up, stretched my hand toward her and screamed, "Don't go, Come back to me!" and surprisingly something caught her right before she touched the Cloud, brought back to me and then smashed right into me. "Oy! What happened?" I've heard her voice inside my head but I really didn't know what to answer. Instead I stretchedout both hands and commanded in the most sure voice I could muster, "All of you – Stop! Come to me!" and they did. One by one they were entering my body and settling inside it starting their conversations. Then a text floated before my eyes – "Not enough Ghost Hosting capacity on Level 1 – do you want to advance?" Who wouldn't, right? "Advancing to Level 2 requires 100 energy units, Level 3 – 300 units, Level 5 – 1000 units, Level 7 – 3000 units"