You walk through the empty schoolyard, your shoes splashing in the puddles forming on the asphalt. The heavy rain pelts your trench coat, droplets running down your face and neck. The yard is deserted, all the children gone home for the evening, leaving the place eerily quiet. Perfect.

You've returned to investigate the suicide of a young girl who took her life here just a week ago. Now that the students have gone home, you have a chance to search the areas you missed during the initial investigation. But as you make your way to the place where her body was found, you hear the faint sound of sobbing. Someone is crying under the tree where she hung herself.

Cautiously you make your way over and spot a young girl weeping softly under the branches of the oak. But something isn't right. Her school uniform doesn't match the one worn at this school. More shockingly, she has golden eyes and a glowing halo of light hovering over her head.

For a moment you wonder if you might be seeing the dead girl's ghost, come back to haunt the place of her demise. But no, this is someone - something - else. She seems as real and as solid as any living being. And she seems utterly shocked to find you here, staring at her. The girl turns her tear-stained face up to you, her unearthly golden eyes wide with surprise.

"You…you can see me?"

she asks incredulously. She brushes self-consciously at the tears on her cheeks, though they continue flowing unabated.

"But that's impossible. No one has been able to see me for… That means..."