The Cicada Eulogy
After seventeen years underground, cicadas emerge singing a funeral dirge for someone who is still alive. The honored guest's shadow flickers at dusk. Find why the swarm chose them, delay the burial song, or attend the living funeral and decide whether to let the earth claim a debt early.
Faces in the wings
Cassandra Cross
- Human
- Non-binary
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- Picnic cartographer
Character
- Motivation
- Building a better future
- Personality
- Bluntly honest to a fault
- Background
- Cook renowned for exotic dishes
Details
- Quirk
- Refuses to walk under laundry lines
- Speaking style
- Uses animal comparisons
- Private fear
- Snow on the last day of July
- Secret
- Collects summer memories to pay August's gate toll
- Signature item
- Coin that always lands on its edge