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The first minutes after sunrise found Lea lying on a grassy slope, slowly breathing in the crisp air and enjoying the grounding feeling of being corporeal once again. Her contentment was particularly pronounced because she was home – well, home in so much as a mist-based spirit could have a home. It had been a long time since she’d returned to her grave.
Sitting up and trailing her fingers through a last few fading tendrils of mist curling about her feet, she prepared to get on with the day, smoothing down the floaty, white skirt of her dress. Then she froze. A jarring, cool something curled through her, leaving her blinking as the sensation rolled down her spine. A full-bodied shiver took hold, skittering down her arms and into her legs until every hair was standing on end. As the feeling stabilise, she tilted her head.
“Did someone just walk over my grave?” she muttered to herself.
Plenty of humans walked over her grave, though, and it never felt quite like that. She peered down the little hill, out over the cluster of well-worn, overgrown graves, searching for a figure in the pale dawn. Whoever she was looking for, she imagined they weren’t human. Rising to her feet, she took a cautious step down the slope.
“Hello?” she called.
Sometimes Saima had been drawn to specific places out of a need to hide out away from civilization. And so they had begun lurking amongst overgrowalone n graves, such spaces being perfefct for them to take on their mythical form. Lounging in this area, they idly sung songs as they took in the view of the night sky from this location. If there was a word to describe the feeling, perhaps contentment would be the best candidate.
They felt like they would be alone at least for a little while. But their impression seemed off, if only for reasons that they couldn’t readily identify. Glancing back towards the slope, a figure coming down started to become more visible. Sitting up, they stretched for a bit before addressing the person coming towards them.
“Hello, is this your place?“