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What Makes Baxter: A Narrative Fiction

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Baxter couldn't handle himself, he continued laughing nonstop to his brother, angrily panicking. Of course, Baxter finally calmed himself almost immediately after Matthew rolled up his sleeves, gesturing to hurt him. From then, it escalated to arguing like toddlers without any senses of maturity. The arguing continued until a flash of strange purple light went through the hallway behind them. “Brother! Did you see that? I told you! Ghosts ARE real!” Baxter jumped in excitement, While Matthew recollected himself and stared at him in disagreement. Baxter bolted off into the hallway leaving his brother behind. Matthew realized he needed to stick with Baxter for his own safety, so he followed the same procedure of dashing off into …show more content…

I scared em’! They are much more smaller and weaker than anything i’ve seen. They must use this armour to look scary and tough.” The ghost lifted its tiny stubs away from its face, it’s almost funny how a terrifying phantom knight was concluded to be this small, weak, little ghost. Baxter apologized to the small spirit with no response but a smile, the ghost doesn’t speak at all. That’s all it was really, just a small spirit wanting to be alone in a quiet castle. No one to scare or bother them. Maybe that's why it didn’t like visitors, they were terrified of visitors. Baxter thought, then, another thought came back to him. “Now what?” Baxter said as he faces his brother. He shrugged. It seems that they figured out the truth but now, they are ghosts themselves in the same castle with the ghost. It took some time, but after a while, the two didn't feel much different with the fact of being spirits. In fact, it seemed to be much better than being human. For some reason though, they just don’t feel at rest, maybe that's why they are still here. Then maybe at some point they can find a purpose to join something greater than them. The idea of that added excitement to the spirits and they accepted the fact they were going to stay for a

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