Lu Li floated to the window on the second floor, peeking through the mottled glass at a faded long dress busy with its back to the wall, as if worn by an invisible silhouette.
The phantom silhouette faded away, and Lu Li passed through the veil of reality into the Inner World, gazing at the gray, desolate room where there was no silhouette or clothing.
The ghostly Inner World projects all things beyond life. The absence of the faded long dress suggests it is a form of life itself.
Lu Li returned to the real world just as the faded long dress turned and discovered the peeping ghost outside the window, scared it floated out of the room.
Boom—
The heavy slamming of the door vibrated the windows.
Lu Li landed back on the street, continuing into the town with Snot and the Crowd of Suffering.
