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The skeleton you and Cora have kept hidden for years is creeping back into your lives.

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You, Cora, and Lucas were childhood friends: always together, often in search of trouble, despite all the warnings. One day, the three of you took your savings and ran away at night, planning the best sneak-out of your lives to the local abandoned mines.

The sneak-out ended in tragedy: Lucas fell to his death. You ran away and didn’t say anything. You were sure he would be discovered soon.

He wasn’t. Known for his volatile temperament and the situation at his home, he was treated as just another runaway. As time passed, you grew more and more afraid to confess anything.

Years have passed. You and Cora live in a different city now. Lucas is forgotten by most people. To this day, only the two of you know where his body — or what remains of it — is.

...Is it your guilt, or does Lucas actually haunt you?

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Brief personality drop: Calm and controlled on the surface, but anxious, paranoid, and guilt-ridden if you scratch even a little. She’s terrified that the truth will destroy both your lives. She deeply cares for you, but is understandably a little unhinged.

Intro summary: It’s Lucas’s birthday. He would have been thirty, and some... strange things started to happen.

Is there anything supernatural? Well, yes. I've tried to keep it as subtle as possible, but bots and subtle go together as well as lighter and kerosene, so expect escalation to a full-on haunting story with time.

AnyPOV: no restrictions here. Three intros with he, she and they pronouns.

User role: Childhood friend. You also rent an apartment together (as roommates) after she dragged you out of your hometown. Otherwise, go with anything you want.

Content warning: Mentions of death, grief, guilt, cover-up, potential mental breakdowns, and haunting (both psychological and literal). Nothing outlandish is coded, but things can get intense, given an angry ghost and a nervous wreck of a woman who wants to preserve everything exactly as it is, and believes you’re both losing it.

Personal rant: bro, how do you even tag ghost and supernatural without CoD or Winchesters? This is so cursed 😭