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“Why do they do that,” Lilli asked them, dropping her voice low both out of respect for the church in which they stood and the people who might have remained. “They deserve to be warm, too.”
At any rate, Lilli sorely missed her sweater and she rubbed her forearms to help quiet the chills in her body. Her gaze wandered once more, taking stock of the interior now that the initial shock of the place passed. It was a church just as any other, really. Old and decrepit, it stood unassuming and not intruding to the lives of people around it. The atmosphere was the only thing which made it unsettling.
“Why do people become trapped here?” Lilli turned her gaze toward Saima when she asked her question, staring closely at their face as if the answer would be written upon it. “Well, not here. But this Earth. Why do they not…go where they will be at peace?”
“They do deserve to be warm. But some folks don’t really have the choice of being warm after they pass. And so even if the place itself is warm, those who lurk around it tend to be cooler presences.“
There was something about the chill that was familiar, all too familiar. Saima knew that there had been some old entities they had known in life that kept around this place.
The question about why do people becoming trapped here made them think. It’s something that has been on their mind often. “Well, it depends. Some souls have unsolved conflicts and can’t rest because of those unsolved issues. Others check in on their descendants and watch over the family. And many just haven’t been able to find peace yet and so stick around in an attempt to at least be among familiar environments. ”