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Chapter of the Children

The children are a person. They are plural-named. They are scenery. The children can be either known or unknown. Understand "ghost", "ghosts", "souls", "soul" as the children. The description is "It is too dark to see the children."

Instead of doing something other than listening with the children:

say "You can only listen to the children."

Listen count is a number that varies. Listen count is 0.

Instead of listening when the player is in In-the-Mirror:

if listen count is 0:

say "You are able to hear the voices of three lost children. You can also feel their touch. It feels like the gentle beat of a moth's wings.";

now the children are known;

move the children to In-the-Mirror;

otherwise if listen count is 1:

say "[italic type] We are three ghosts.";

say " The mother caught us.";

say "And she kept us[roman type].";

otherwise if listen count is 2:

say "[italic type] We must be dead now, but without our souls we cannot flee.";

say " Please find our souls and take them with you.";

say "They look like marbles[roman type].";

otherwise if listen count is greater than 2:

say "[italic type] ...like marbles..[roman type].";

say "[italic type] ...like marbles..[roman type].";

say "[italic type]...like marbles..[roman type].";

increase listen count by 1.