True. Though most I've had to deal with lingered for grief or anger or some kind of love. Why did you?

( said with a sigh, because it has an unfortunate tendency towards truth when so many of the dead energies, those resentful energies he'd coaxed or directed, came from people murdered outright, not simply dead through accident.

here, well. a different case altogether. )

Something related to why boats go missing. A curse either on or transferred to the boats, calling people to the waters. Then down, which would make one of the mermaids perfect to discuss with if any were in these waters and either deceased or amenable to fish.

( also known as bribery, though mermaids went for larger meals, and the dead ones have never been so chatty in his experience. at least their energies and minds are more familiar after two years of traveling this world and encountering them at various occasions. )

Oh well! Might see how strong the compulsion grows, none of it feels like drowning.

( he hums his own note of consideration. )