The spirit of Les Innocents
(Open starter for Ghost!Human!Nicolas)
The cemetery of Les Innocents was gone- it had been closed since 1780, it's bodies taken to other tombs, and now the place Joachim-du-Bellay stood on its grounds. But nevertheless, it was haunted. What was the march of urban progress to the restless dead?
Usually, the haunting was experienced as a sound. A mournful wail. A high-pitched screech. A panicked scream. Sometimes it even sounded like music. People debated whether the haunting cry was a human voice at all, or the plaintive strings of a violin.
Like any haunting, it was dismissed by most, and debated fiercly by true believers. There was no consensus of which of the cemetery's dead still lingered, or whether it was just one spirit at all. Few people ever heard anything at all. Fewer still ever saw even the hint of the spectre- a young man in torn and filthy clothes, marred by wounds and bruises.