Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden: Twilight, and After

After sunset, the capital city fills with all kinds of nocturnal birds, their cries echoing irritably from lampposts and rooftops. Who would guess that they are, in fact, reapers, playing music to guide souls into the afterlife?

Chaochan is the spirit of a young boy in a skirt who lives in an abandoned tower in the middle of the city. He calls himself the caretaker of the Eleventh-Floor Theater. Each evening, he wakes to the same routine: tending to lost children and watching the dazzling parade of spirits who leapt to their deaths. He cannot help but wonder why the reapers he lives among have never come to take his soul.

What secret are they hiding from him, and what are they trying to protect him from?

Trigger Warnings: Death, corpses, cults and extreme religious ideologies, violence, and potentially disturbing content and imagery

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