(Oh joy. Well time to move the plot.)
After seeing the graffiti on the wall our young group of heroes walked to Alice's place and recollected all of their stuff. Aster remembered to knock correctly yet still acted like no one existed in the place besides Alice whom he was glaring daggers at. She soon grew irritated.
"What?"
"What what?" said a none too innocent Aster.
"Why are staring at me?"
"Because..." Drawled the main character of this post.
"Spit it out."
"Would you happen to know anything about Shell? Or Skelly as we all call him out of love."
"That walking corpse?" She scoffed.
"I heard him being called a reaper." Added someone who had been at the police station ( A/N: For the convenience of this particular plot scene :V)
Alice's eyes flashed in recognition and everyone caught it. She made everyone except the bunch of them leave before queitly locking everything, even the emergency exits, except the windows. She never knew when Aster would blow something up and fill the room with smoke.
"Reaper..." She contemplated. Was it really necessary to tell them? "A reaper can only be viewed by the living once they have been fully reincarnated. Your past selves could be radically different from what you currently exist as. A hero can be the villain of today, a sinner a saint, get what I mean?" Alice paused to let that sink in and Aster let out a disinterested sigh.
"So that's the reason only you particular lot can see him. If you don't believe me, you can ask anyone else here- Not Aster he will cause mayhem and make you all seem mentally unstable about seeing a ghost. Reapers, I fought them long ago. In fact my thirst for power cost me my humanity. It's a pain trying to keep my voice nice unless you all get offended. Then again I dare you to complain." And everyone flinched at the last sentence, a dark and menacing undertone accompanying Alice's voice. It sounded like the devil himself.
"Just kidding, that's just a cheap gimmick compared to what I can truly do."
"You can't cook an egg for life so be the devil incarnate all you want." Aster huffed, annoyed at being afraid of her now. "So what is Skell's motive?" He made up a new nickname.
"Ah, that would be telling."
"You're unaware."
"BinBon!" Alice pointed with her index fingers in a try to be moe but it failed because of her stoic face. "Frankly speaking, I've learned not to get into matters in which I'm not involved."
"Are you for real Zephira?" Aster cocked an eyebrow. Everyone was confused and Alice had a bad look in her eyes at the mention of her awkward last name.
"God just died and you don't want to help us!" His voice jumped an octave.
"How do you even know God is dead?!" Alice yelled back.
"The writing on the wall told us so!" Aster gave skyhigh logic.
"...Someone ruined a wall in my neighbourhood?"
"I just told you god died and you're worried about a wall?"
"You're not making any sense. Can anyone else, someone with a two halves of a brain explain?" Alice inquired of the others. Within seconds it was clarified.
"Hm? Would anyone happen to know more about it? Did anyone encounter anything strange besides the wall- Aster I do not need the positions the birds were flying with respect to the wall." Alice asked of the heroes.