Really? How mysteriously helpful... [It's hardly a stretch of the imagination for a monster to assume that a ghost watches TV sometimes, even if it's a little stranger to imagine maybe-dead-humans continuing the habit.

He slows his pace a moment to concentrate on attempting to put a corner of the bar to his mask's mouth. But there's a brief crumbling sound, as the corner breaks from the friction of the walls, and then a grumbling as he returns to the task of squishing it down a little more.] I wonder...

I didn't see any 'living island' notes. But that's no surprise. No mirrors... and no steam... but when we woke up, earlier, all the cages... were just a little open. [Maybe the ghosts visited to get the doors open, too, once they knew a rescue was mounting?]