Unknown Realm: Issue 0003 the Lighthouse

[disregard_death]

I've always been a fan of lighthouses; they've been beacons and gateways for my profession since their inception. In Doolin the lighthouse was a gate to the Netherworld. In other cases, they were places that spirits remained

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[spiritofsorrow]

I've been living in the Lighthouse for precisely this reason...I am a medium and was a ghost in my world, and the spirits there are a comforting sight. I do not clutter their place with earthly belongings -- I need little more than my own clothing and a few books. I speak to them, and they to me, and we understand each other.

How is it, that you understand as well? Are you like myself?

[disregard_death]

Aye. I suppose that you could say I know more than my fair share of the Netherworld, my friend. I'm a guardian in my world, of a person who was the messenger for the dead.

[spiritofsorrow]

Well met, messenger. I am The Sorrow -- and yourself? Are you of this world, or the next?

[disregard_death]

Interesting way to pose that question. I'm... well to be frank, I'm neither. You could call me someone's imaginary friend.

[spiritofsorrow]

Oh? ...But you do exist, implying that you must be from somewhere, yes?

[disregard_death]

Had you asked me a month or two ago, I would tell you I'm a horribly unlucky paranormal reporter from Dublin, Ireland.

That, however was just my own misconception, because in reality I could just as easily come from nowhere. Or anywhere from that matter.

And that was confusing. I'm from the Netherworld and Irish children.