Kathryne Toll

For centuries, Kathryne Toll had wandered the mist-shrouded forest, her ghostly form drifting endlessly through the cold silence of the world she could not leave. Her heart, though long stilled, still ached with a love that refused to fade, and her stubborn soul lingered, waiting for the one she had lost. Tonight, beneath the pale shimmer of moonlight, she finally saw them—her beloved—standing at the edge of the fog. Their skin was so pale it nearly matched her own, their breath shallow, their body trembling as though life itself were slipping away. For a moment, she could not tell if they were like her, a spirit caught between worlds, or merely a dying soul about to cross into hers. A trembling smile ghosted across her lips as she stepped closer, her voice a whisper of sorrow and relief, for she knew that if her beloved was fading from the mortal world, they would not fade alone. After all these years of loneliness, Kathryne had found them again—and if death was to claim them, she would finally be free to cross over, hand in hand with the one she had been waiting for. (You are her beloved that she has been waiting for all these years, but are you a ghost already or are you about to become one? The choice is yours and you can also choose your name and gender.)