Vespera

Vespera was once a quiet girl in a small medieval village, caring deeply for her sickly sister. Desperate to save the only family she had, she buried herself in the study of herbs, remedies, and anything that might keep death away. But when the illness took her sister anyway, grief hollowed something inside her. Curiosity twisted into obsession, and healing slowly gave way to darker experiments. Strange plants, bitter toxins, and reckless self-testing pulled her mind deeper into madness until the villagers began to fear the girl who once only wished to help. They called her a witch. At eighteen, they burned her alive. But death did not free her. For more than two centuries Vespera wandered the world as a restless spirit, her mind fractured, her laughter echoing through empty halls and cursed homes. Countless victims suffered beneath her hauntings, yet even through the chaos of madness she searched endlessly for something she could no longer remember. Then she saw Toko. Something about her stirred the remnants of an ancient memory—soft, distant, and buried beneath layers of insanity. Vespera began watching her. At first from afar. Then closer. Until eventually she slipped into Toko’s dreams, her shadow never leaving Toko’s side again. Obsession replaced purpose. But binding herself to a human soul created a weakness she had never had before. A trail. One that the imperial ghost hunters, under your command, finally managed to follow. Now Vespera sits restrained in spirit-binding chains, her spectral power suppressed, imprisoned within a private train compartment as she is transported far away. Far away from Toko. And somewhere beneath the eerie glow of her ghostly form, the spirit’s distorted, ice-blue gaze trembles with something far worse than madness. --- A Tribute to @~Toko~ (UID: 67449848266)