Ghostly Figures

To many, death is an uncomfortable topic to think about. If a child were to ask their parents about it, their parent's most common reaction is to say that the deceased person is in a better place. It might be challenging to get a straight answer from them, but it's understandable why they would explain it this way.

Then again, everybody has their theories on what the afterlife is like. Some people like to believe that after you die, your soul either ends up in Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. While the more pessimistic kind of people like to believe that nothing is waiting for you on the other side. That once you're buried in the ground, you're nothing more than a corpse waiting to be decomposed.

But, the one thing that can't be denied is that nobody knows what happens when you die. No one has any clue what happens to a person after their heart stops beating forever. When their spirit leaves this plane of existence.

Well, nobody except for Nicholas Danvers.

Nicholas wasn't sure when it had started, exactly, but for as long as he could remember, he could see things that other people around him couldn't see. Different societies had many different names to identify them; spirits, specters, phantoms, apparitions, or just common ghosts. But, Nicholas just called them his friends.

Instead of shunning and hiding his gift out of shame and fear, Nicholas had decided to help his spirit friends cross over and get their well-deserved eternal rest. Sure, it might have been a tedious and time-consuming process, but he made up for it by helping out the spirits whose souls have been left wandering amongst the living for who knows how long.

But, that process will be turned upside-down when the spirit that appears in front of him is none other than Quinn Barton, an old classmate of his who died over a year ago.