Ah, our silly Silk, in one of her many incarnations! This spirit was born haughty, and ravenous, and it took a lot of hard lessons to make a good person (cat? Ghost? Whatever...) out of it.

Spirits live a lot of time, or better, time does not exist for them as it exist for us. Their world is not physical. Side by side with their life in the dream world, spirits live lives as incarnated creatures. Animals, animal people (humans included), plants, mycetes. And they do it while they sleep! We dream them, they dream us!
One of our lives lasts a few instants for them but carries a lot of sensations and memories when they wake up.

Our Silk has had a whole lot of nightmares in her early life, being a wicked bitch of a cat.
In this one in particular, she was so thirsty for wealth she used her undeniable charm to marry a rich guy, that she then killed, together with his two children and their nanny.
But she cut herself with the knife she used to slaughter her victims, caught tetanus and died an horrible death with all her bones broken by convulsions :|