Where Wisps Wander

Orrin is seventeen, and he has the eyes his family is known for: black, hollow, and the reason the town finds somewhere else to look when he passes. The old caretaker who raised him hands him a lantern, a ring of keys, and a cemetery that has been let go for a long time. Cut the ivy back. Mend a headstone until its name can be read again. Raise your lantern over someone who has been alone in the dark for sixty years, and stay there while they settle.

Setting

An English country cemetery, 1966 to 1971

Grounds

Nine, hand-built

Tools

Eight, handed over one at a time

The mystery

Eight fragments, one per ground

Fail state

None

“Some things cannot be fixed. They can be kept.”