For communicating with souls... is this something Northly can do naturally? Aves-types have the ability to see souls, and any corruptive influences upon them, but can't necessarily interact with them.
If she can commune with souls (or if any other character with that ability tries): it would be first met with silence, and then a kind of mental static. There's no specific thought behind it, but it might impress a general sense of contentment, that all is well. But this is just for the 'ambient' soul-presence. If this is attempted on a person right in front of them, there would be no response, no reaction from any soul, and the person would fail to notice that anyone was doing anything at all.
The demographics of Kelesis are similar to that of Karteria. Humans, of all skin tones and ages. There are the elderly, there are children, there are pregnancies (and presumably births). There is probably the cycle of life, though the Augmented will never witness anyone actually dying. There are also no observable hospitals, though there are a couple small clinics at the edges of the inner ring of the city. Any patients waiting inside don't seem to be suffering from anything worse than fevers, colds, and the rare broken bone. Were a character to come in for treatment, they would be directed back to Karteria....
A modest graveyard does exist within the leftish-half of the Kelesian circle, nestled within the residential ring. It is even reachable, unlike the government, though given the difficulty in mapping anything outside of the center of town, being able to consistently find it might be a challenge.
Spectrals (and anyone else with a strong connection to the dead) could notice that no one's been buried recently, i.e., that there's no death in this graveyard. Trying to dig up any grave is a crime, and would have the character ejected from Kelesis for a few days. The gravestones themselves are well-maintained, there's flowers lain nearby that never seem to decay, and there's no names written on anything.
No one is particularly sick in Kelesis. The population is overall much healthier than that of Karteria. There's the occasional cold, a polite cough, a tragic sneeze- and the friendly gripe about it all. Someone might have a broken arm in a sling; the old often walk with a cane. But they are unreasonably hearty.
For capturing the messages written on the Kelesians: they do disappear just as quickly even if they're only 'seen' by the Syntrofos, and not the Augmented directly. They can be immortalized in film (or, rather, electronic data), though the original message might be slightly different. The font might change, or 'down' might become 'help'. Nothing new, but distinctly not what might have been there at first.
Further attempts to communicate with anything watching does not seem to generate any additional response. A sense of being watched might increase, along with a distant sense of fluster... maybe this is a lot of interrogating to happen all at once.
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