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[schrodingersghost]

[Danny hated the entire Christmas season. That hadn't changed.

But last year he'd made a promise to give it a try this year. To try and keep from ruining anyone else's enjoyment of the season.

You know what really wasn't helping with that? Christmas decorations. Everywhere. 

And they kept reappearing. He'd already taken five trashbags full of decorations out of his apartment, and they kept showing up again.]

Somebody please tell me there's a non-Christmas place to hang out. I mean, we've got a huge area here. There's gotta be at least one place where all this Christmas stuff hasn't gotten. RIght?

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[aspacepirate]

...I wish I had answer that you'd like. But I seriously haven't seen one place without them up yet.

And trust me, I'm not really a fan. I don't mind decorating, but come on... at least let me make the decision to do it on my own.

(Mark sighs. Well, at least it wasn't like his own world where the things would start popping up right after Halloween or even before in some places. But still, yeah, it was a...surprise.)

Sorry, kid.

[schrodingersghost]

...Somehow it figures.

And yeah, somebody seriously overkilled the decorations here. I've already taken four trashbags out and they just keep coming back.

[aspacepirate]

(What.) ...Hold on. What? You took out four trashbags worth and they keep popping back up?

(Mark had been considering taking some of them down tomorrow. He's no Scrooge but it's embarrassing to have his apartment look like the something North Pole threw up.

Now he knows to not waste his energy, but still, he is actually puzzled and disappointed and even a bit annoyed by this development.)

The paper says it was Santa who did that...if so, Santa...what the hell? Not cool to decorate without asking.

[schrodingersghost]

I really seriously doubt it was Santa that did this.

[Just the mention of that particular Christmas tradition was enough to put Danny in a sour mood. ]

[aspacepirate]

So, if not him, any ideas who it could be?

(Mark frowns when he notices Danny's expression, but he decides to not bother him about why he seems bothered. He'll let Danny mention why on his own, if he ever even wants to.)

Because, magically reappearing trees and stuff...not exactly something my world is full of. Of course, stories of magical people? Tons of that going around. (A pause.) Sorry, but I totally get being annoyed right now about it. (Of course in Mark's case - another holiday without his family.)

[schrodingersghost]

....Ghosts?

[Hey, in Danny's world this was a perfectly reasonable explanation. ]

...Yeah, I'm not really a Christmas fan to start with. This isn't really helping.

[aspacepirate]

Ghosts?

(An eyebrow raise follows that.) I don't know if we can pin this sort of thing on ghosts.

(He's not much of a believer, but he also knows that waking up in a pod and later enough decorations to bankrupt a store showing up in an apartment overnight isn't exactly normal so alright, it might be ghosts. Jerk ghosts.) But, alright. Maybe. Let's not rule it out.

You aren't? Well, ...(Mark can't say he's not a fan of Christmas, but he totally thinks he gets why someone might not be a fan.) Well, in any case, it's kind of annoying that things were just hung up like this without anyone being asked what they wanted. Good intentions or not.

[schrodingersghost]

Why not? It's exactly the kind of thing one of them would do.

[Although if it was them it would probably involve more glowing flying ornaments and speeches about doom and taking over the world. Ghosts were not subtle, usually.]