Jaskier's family has a long and thoroughly bewildering history of mingling with non-humans. Elves, dryads, spirits, dragons—depending on which branch of the family tree one consults, all of them appear somewhere among the Pankratz ancestors.
As a result, it is entirely unclear what Jaskier actually is.
The Pankratz family, however, considers this a perfectly normal state of affairs.
The manor itself is no less peculiar. The sprawling ancestral estate has been home to ghosts for centuries. Most families would find this alarming. The Pankratzes simply set extra places at dinner and learned which hallways to avoid after midnight.
So when Jaskier and Geralt receive an urgent summons to the family home, they expect the usual sort of problem.
What they do not expect is that the ghosts have gone quiet.
Suspiciously quiet.
The cheerful spirits that rattled chandeliers, argued over card games, and occasionally sang along to Jaskier's lute have vanished. Entire wings of the manor stand silent. Doors no longer creak open on their own. No phantom footsteps echo through the halls.
For the first time in living memory, the Pankratz Manor is almost entirely free of hauntings.
Which is precisely why Geralt has been hired.
Not to stop a haunting.
To start one.
