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Samantha flings her spear with the head still attached after it talks.

"What!?" She squeals.

"I told you they talked." I say walking toward the swearing head that's face down in the dirt. Pulling it up I see it has long black hair, pale skin, dark eyes, thick eyebrows and thin lips.

"I know but!.. bah!" Her shivers shake her body violently from the creeps.

I hold the head up and his face is covered in dirt and mud. He is swearing up and down about how horrible we are treating him.

"Listen," I say firmly, "we are here to attach you to your body because you apparently haven't figured out how to do that. Then to top it off, you're killing people for looking at you. We could run a spear through you now and be done with it but no. Someone wants you to rest in peace so the other people you killed can be put to rest."

The head thinks on that. Being both insulted and cared for in the same paragraph must be new for him.

"Very well. I guess I don't mind being swaddled in the arms of two beautiful ladies." He smiles but being covered in filth doesn't make him attractive.

"Here you carry this one." I toss the skull toward Samantha. She initially tries catching it but must have realized partway through she didn't want to touch it. So here we are with her batting it around til she kicks it into a nearby tree. 

"I'm sorry." She says cowardly. Shrinking into herself a little.

"Would you rather carry the perv head on your spear?" I ask holding onto the manbun. She cringes but nods.

"Perv head?! I have a name!" The head shouts. "It's-"

"Don't care right now." I say handing Samantha back her spear. I begin tying the hair back up so perv head won't fall off the end.

"My name is!-"

"Now that we have two heads one of them is bound to be the head of our Dullahan. Sadly the other will need to be handed to another pervert." I explain with a sigh.

"Would you listen to-"

"After we get ours taken care of I will send you home to save you from being exposed to him." I explain.

"Why won't you-!"

"Would you be quiet! I'm trying to tell her something important perv head!" I shout at him.

"My name is Bob! Not perv head!" Says perv head. "I came from a poor family with no last name and moved my way up the ranks in the army. I finally made it to calvary just to loose my head in battle. Now I must find my killer!" He laughs menacingly.

"Awesome." I say unimpressed. "Well you heard it from him. Dullahans come from being beheaded or if a necromancer is powerful enough they can create one. Whether their heads turn into straight up skulls varies, this one might have been a normal rider in the woods," I say picking up the skull, "and someone like perv head beheaded them."

"Would you stop call-"

"Any questions?" I ask my trainee while putting the skull into my bag.

"Uh-" She starts.

"Yea I have some questions why at the very least, aren't I being swaddle-" perv head starts but me pulling out silver tape made him real quiet. I look to Samantha.

"How do we find the body?" She asks timidly.

"Simple!" I pull out another scroll. "We follow this. I would ask perv head to sense for his body but I don't want him to lead us a stray." I lead the way with Samantha following close behind.

"Earlier you said he has to pass peacefully for the ones he killed to pass peacefully?" Samantha pipes up.

"Yes. So when a rift happens and there are spirits nearby they tend to get sucked in or just follow the one they are attached to." I explain.

"So the others can move on and not have to walk this planet?" She asks.

"Yep." I reply.

"That's good." She says quietly looking around in the sparse woods. The sun is setting and is painting the clouds and sky in reds, purples and pinks. After a little while they fade into a dull rainbow right around where the sun sunk down. The pink aura I was following has also ended.

"Alright now that the sun is down, our Dullahan will come out to play." I tell her as I rummage through my bag to put the scroll away.

"H-hazel!" Samantha tries shouting. I look up at her and she is pointing behind me. I can hear the sound of hooves pounding the ground. I duck covering my neck and head with my shield. A strong force hits there knocking me over so I roll with the momentum.

Coming out of the roll I draw a spear. The Dullahan circles back and is charging fast with it's sword ready at its side. It's dark armor reflecting the moonlight. His horse is one of those 50 shades of grey a horse comes in.

"Keep moving or it will take your head." I say deflecting another heavy blow with my shield. It circles around for Samantha. She has her bow drawn and releases a flaming arrow. In the time the dullahan is busy deflecting that she is hid amongst the trees. 

"Body stop! If we are united than we can't get our revenge!" Perv head shouts. His torso twists around as if searching which way his head went. Not sure how to break it to perv head that his body can't hear him and can just sense that it's missing body part is nearby. Or it can sense fear when eyes fall upon it. But now it's after Samantha who is holding onto its head.

"Samantha! We have to get his head back on the body. It'll be easy just follow my directions. Toss it here!" We are both on the run weaving through trees to slow down the horse. She flings the head my way and I catch it. "How good are you at basketball?"

The look on her face says not good.

"Duck!" I shout and she dodges the dullahan's sword. "Alright! What we need to do is kinda like a slam dunk to get the head attached. The body isn't very good at catching their heads and tend to drop them and then they get trampled on. It's a mess, trust me."

"How the heck are we supposed to get close to that thing without losing our own heads?! And I am not going to be able to put you down if you turn into one of these things!" Samantha shouts back.

"Alright, hold Perv for a minute and I will get the sword away from him." I toss Perv back to her as he screams his name.

With the body distracted with the head moving and me not having any fear. He can't really sense me, meaning if I just slightly hide my presence we're golden. I run infront of the dullahan while blessing my spear with holy power. In a swift motion I cut the sword from the dullahan.

"Ready!" I shout. "Pass Perv back!"

Samantha tries getting a better grip to throw him but fumbles. So poor Perv is rolling along the ground. Instead of picking him up, she starts kicking him like a soccer ball. With a full send of a kick, she completely yeets Perv right into a nearby tree. After a lot of apologies she is able to grab him and toss him my way.

With a jump I'm able to slam dunk Perv right between his shoulder blades. A light emits from him and then he is gone and a few presences I felt are gone too.

But here comes another presence I try to avoid.

"Time for you to go." I tell Samantha. "We need to preserve your innocence." I open a portal and shove her through.