[For the record, Cid also jumped back a bit with a Wah! Huh? Why?? when the monster girl yelped, so instead of the monster jumpscare it was just some kind of weird mutual monster and humanoid jumpscare. Clownery aside, he recovers pretty quickly since the haunted evil house plot is apparently deepening.]

So it really is a pretty haunted house. Is that why it's all dark around here? Lanterns and sources of light and stuff are all messed up?

[Does that mean they have to claw around in the dark or light will eat them. What a reverse uno.]

Oh, and, uh -- just checking, but I'm guessing the specters look different from you, but the people in the house look more like you...?