Is it you or is it me?

"Well," I said.

"Well," said Richard.

"What we know for sure that one of us is a ghost and one of us isn't."

"But we don't know which is which. We pass through each other, but I can touch the objects in my world and you can touch the objects in your world."

"To be fair, we're lucky one of us is alive, whichever one of us it is. That accident should've finished us both off. But one of us hasn't got a scratch on them."

"Neither of us have, that's the mystery. If one of us is dead, where's the wound."

"Ghosts don't have wounds, they're not solid flesh, they're just an apparition."

"In that case, where's the dead body."

"I don't know, maybe ghosts can't see their own corpse or something."

"But if it's me that's dead you should see my corpse, or vice versa."

"Anyway, whoever's dead, whoever's alive, we need to get out of here."

"We can't. We're trapped. Because of the accident."

"The accident."

"I can't move my body, I'm trapped."

"So am I."

"But if you're a ghost, why don't you just walk away?"

"Oh, it's my fault is it? Well, what if you're the ghost, you walk away. Go on, show what you can do."

"I can't."

"Aha, who'se the crap ghost now?"

"I wasn't criticising you, I was just wondering, why the ghost amongst us can't walk through walls."

"I don't know. That's a wasted wonder."

"Anyway, I've been thinking…." (pause)

"You paused."

"I was thinking."

"I know, you just said."

"I was just thinking, if we can walk through each other..."

"Well, one of us can, we don't know which one."

"What if we became one, if we stepped into each other and stayed there, then one of us would be the ghost in the other one's world and we could just walk away, through the walls and barriers."

"It sounds unlikely."

"We've not got a better plan."

"No, all our plans vanished after the accident."

"The accident."

"It's worth a try I suppose."

"OK, turn towards me, now we'll both take one step forward and see if our bodies merge."

"Urggghhh, this is weird. It's like kissing a fat girl."

"In what way?"

"I don't know, it just is."

"It seems to be working."

"We're through the first barrier."

"Wow, I've never been half way through a wall before, look at the brickwork."

"Fantastic, we're in the middle of a wall admiring the view of unlit bricks, let's stay here forever."

"I was just saying."

"One more step should do it. Wow, daylight."

"Daylight."

"We can separate again now. Let's both take a step forward."

"Thank god, that was disgusting, like kissing a fat girl."

"I still don't get the fat girl thing."

"We're free."

"We're free."

"Well."

"Well."

"One of us is free."

"And one of us is dead."

"It's still not obvious is it."

"I can touch the objects in my world, still solid."

"And I can touch the objects in my world, still solid."

"Let's toss a coin for it. Tails I'm alive."

"Heads you're dead."

"Shit, it's landed on it's edge."