Where the Dead Keep Watch

Previously

…He knew, with the certainty of old age and a lifetime of observing the land’s subtle shifts, that their arrival was not merely an act of settlement, but an unwitting step into a history that was far from over. The cemetery, he mused, always seemed to stir when new souls came to dwell within its reach, its ancient residents stirring in their slumber, their vigil subtly shifting to encompass these new, unsuspecting watchers. The land itself pulsed with a quiet hunger, a need for more stories, more lives to weave into its tapestry of the past.