The Increasingly Explored Woods, Sunday Afternoon

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Erasmus had a personal ranking system for cemeteries and graveyards, based on how noisy the spirits of the dead buried there were. The town church's graveyard was an interesting one. No one had been buried there for a while, it seemed, so the spirits were mostly content and quiet, but they were...well. Interesting. He'd have to come back and check it out more thoroughly later, because for now he wanted to find the cemetery he could feel in the woods and see how it compared. He expected it to be even older, probably forgotten and left untended by its location.

He wasn't what you would call 'outdoorsy' by any stretch of the imagination, but he could tromp through the woods for a bit with the best of them, heading in the straightest line possible toward the dead until he saw a house through the trees. Well. More like a mansion. A kind of creepy mansion.

"Huh," Erasmus said quietly to himself. "I guess I could have just followed the path." The cemetery must be behind the house, but he wasn't about to go poking around on private property, so it looked like this was a dead end.

Ha. 'Dead.'

(Open to anybody else in the woods!)