A Cemetery Cleaner [pt. 1]

 In the outskirts of the little town of Wynstone, Utah lives Lucy. She's a 30-something-year-old working as a groundskeeper for the town's only cemetery. Wynstone (or affectionately called The City despite only having a population of 3,000) has only one stoplight and too many four-way-stops and not enough roundabouts. Lucy happens to live in a tiny home on the grounds. No rent or utility bills to worry about, just cleaning the graves and upkeep of the land as well as repairing any damaged parts of the graves or columbarium, she is basically the handy-woman of the final stop.

Despite making good money and worry-free living arrangements of Lucy's job, there's a basement of her home that connects to a variety of tunnels throughout the town and there's a spark of an urban legend where people whisper and children dare about the hauntings that occur below their feet. When Lucy discovers the entrance and a room with some coffins and caskets strewn about, things get interesting. Then when she stumbles across another room with a lone tomb with a marble effigy of an unknown woman, questions begin to fly.

Additional Characters for the Archivist Story

 

This is college-freshman Lenora or Lea for short. She does the housekeeping duties at the colombarium and office. On occasion Lea helps her boyfriend in the cemetery cleaning duties where she cleans the grave markers and niche plaques. She is 19-years-old.

A young Lea in high school.

High school picture of Felix.

Lea's boyfriend, Felix, and he is 20-years old.

He goes to the same community college as Lea. He usually does the ground maintenance and some landscaping for Angie's business.

This is Felix's little sister, Rosie, and she is a middle-school age kid (about 14-years-old) and usually likes to hang out in the office or anywhere to help out around the office and burial areas, but is mostly stuck doing some help in the office.

The Archivist

 

Auntie Angie on her spare time goes traveling to cemeteries to document for family history databases as she enjoys mapping out her family tree as other's.

One of her favorite places to go to is going out to the most remote villages and obtaining permission to collect family histories and uploading them online on those family history sites and allowing the world know their fellow human beings.

Raina, the lost queen

 

Raina is the lost queen in Tabitha's world. She is the middle daughter of a foreign family married to the king, but she had gone missing back when the king was just a prince and she was just his princess. Only the king knows where her whereabouts are, but won't disclose where and why of the details.

Raina is actually living in the village unbeknownst to everyone there because they don't know what she looks like and she had gone many transformations in her look to disguise herself and even the king sometimes doesn't recognize her. She currently runs a crystals and glass shop as well as the tea room. She has these magical little creatures she calls tea cats. They appear as a fusion of mice and owls with a cat's personality. Raina has them help her organize the shop and prepare the tea rooms. These were originally fairy's pets and now are sold as familiars too for magic-born humans.

Raina's magical abilities are in shapeshifting as well as potion making, which is why she has a knack for tea making and evading detection that she is the long lost queen. On the side, she sometimes hire divinators who are commonly known as fortune tellers or tarot card readers in her tea room(s) upon demand in the season.