Managed to get one more chapter out before I go out of town tomorrow! I'm hoping to work on a couple more while I'm gone, but I won't be able to upload them (except maybe on AO3) until I get back. In the meantime, enjoy!
Excerpt below:
“Turn back… for the sake of your souls.”
Before they could respond, the flame mysteriously snuffed itself out. The glowing lines and symbols on the preserved gourd itself similarly vanished.
“...hello? Are you still there?” Lykou asked, just on the off-chance they could still communicate with whoever, or whatever they’d been speaking to. A few moments of silence answered him. “...guess not…”
“...w-what a shame,” Kuna commented, staring at the empty gourd with a flat expression. “We definitely need m-more ambiguously ominous advice f-from mysterious talking ghost-fires in our lives.”