Argo waited patiently, listening to the other speakers in turn before it came to him. Just as he was about to speak, the girl from near the beginning spoke up again and seemed to witter on about what the others had said. Argo glanced around; she must’ve just not noticed he was there. Then, the man dressed in white stated talking once more. Argo frowned in frustration, could they not see him?! He stood up and moved towards the centre of the semicircle to make his presence known, clearing his throat loudly.

“Hey, er, Mr Ikiriyo Tobe, sir” he wasn’t exactly sure he’d pronounced it correctly but he went on, “Yes, I have a question, I am thinking that it is perhaps maybe best that I introduce myself also, you know, and then maybe Koyuki, I think that is right, she can invite me, to the party, and you peoples will know my name so it is easier to speak with me, yes?” He spoke with a noticeable accent. In addition, he spoke quickly, his sentences seeming to roll into one another; he would pause at odd intervals, creating one long string of oddly rhythmic speech.

Turning to the room, “Yes as I was saying my name is Argo, Argo Mihhailov, if maybe you have trouble to say my name I can explain it slowly: mee-hi-lov, yes that is it, simple. Err, ah, yes, how it is that I came to be here, well I myself also died, I was not stabbed like some of you...” he glanced at the respective people, “...nor did I kill myself.” He glanced at the relevant people once again. “No as it happens I died in hospital, I was very sick you know, if I knew the name of what it was that had killed me I would for sure tell you but as it happens I do not know, it is great mystery to me.” He paused again, waiting for his thoughts to catch up.

“Ok, yes, that’s right, next thing, I see you peoples have a, thing, next to you, I too also have something the same, yes, a Mori? That is what you called it, well, here is mine, his name is Shifty, that is what he tells me, he, as you can see, well it is hard to see what he is actually.” With an exasperated grin he gestured to his Mori, which currently resembled a shadowy figure, the most prominent feature being a pair of blue eyes that stared out at the group. “He is not always like this, sometimes he has a different shape you know.”

He turned to address the man dressed in white at the front of the room. “It is a pleasure to meet you sir, Mr Tobe, I must say, I am thinking it is the same for the others here, I don’t know for sure, but it would make sense if they feel, like I do, this strange feeling, sir, it is hard to explain but it is like something telling me that I have a mission, something I must do to make this feeling go away. It is this feeling that has brought me here to you, I think, and I think it must be you, who is going to be the one to tell me what I must do, what, I think, what we [i]all[/i] must do.” He stressed the word as he gestured to the rest of the people with his arm.

After a short pause he nodded to the group “Okay, that is it from me for now, nice to meet you peoples, I was thinking perhaps for a moment I was invisible! Haha! But, yes, I am thinking maybe we can have good times at this party, yes.” He moved back towards his seat but remained standing.