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It's raining - not that that's anything to be surprised about…. It always seems to be raining in Yi nowadays.
The town itself seems to be a generator of bad luck - it always has been the residents agree.
A-Qing stands at the gates of the graveyard and frowns before glancing up and down the road and slipping through. She's lived here her whole life - and she hates hearing people talk bad about her home.
She receives odd looks sometimes - the cursed girl in the cursed town who lives by herself and tends to the graveyard.
It's not a proper graveyard - that's on the other side of the town, this is the old one. The one most of the residents avoid.
The ghosts don't like them, don't like being disturbed.
She sits on the bench and before long she's joined by the ghosts.
There's a young man who hovers at the tree line. He's sad, she can tell from the way he stands, the way he wanders the edge of the graveyard, fingers trailing along the walls.
He's missing an arm, and he's been stabbed through… but he's not scary. He's never hurt her.
The other ghost is a man slightly older then the sad ghost.
This one haunts the dilapidated cabin in the center of the graveyard. He's blind but you'd know apart from the bandage tied around his head. He has a slash across his neck.
When the two ghosts cross paths… when the sad ghost stops at what she assumes was once the gate to the cabin, the blind ghost cries tears of blood and the sad ghost just cries. And then they move on.
They don't seem to notice her presence, but she watches. She sees.
She wishes she could help them.
When others enter the graveyard - the sad ghost becomes angry. Shadows swirl and the white ghost bleeds from his neck.
She watches the shadows and the shadows tell the story for their demise. Figures fighting. Figures dying. Figures mourning.
(They were in love)
(And they ultimately died from it)
And so they bleed and cry and rage.
And as an old woman, she herself dies in the graveyard, in the presence of the two ghosts who were waiting take her body in silence.
They witnessed her grow up and now it was time to bring her home.