Lanterns Under the River

The dead have started writing back, and their answers turn up at your lantern workshop every morning.

uncanny · luminous · uneasy · busy · Medium, about 30 scenes

You play

Neri, Neri, thirty-four, who runs the lantern workshop in Vey, is making the town's eight hundred frames for Lantern Night, and wants the apprentice whose last season this is to stay on as a partner

How it begins

The lantern had gone down the Corn Street well in March with a candle in it and an apology. It came back in April with neither. In their place, in the upright hand of a choirmaster the whole town had buried, was a square of paper: You were not singing flat. I was in the wrong key.