Above the village of Ashby sits Hollowmere, an old cemetery estate where the greenhouse blooms only at night. Its keeper is Evander Crowe, a necromancer the villagers fear and never visit. They say he raises the dead. The truth is gentler: he helps lingering spirits say goodbye. Guest climbed the hill one night, lost, and found him tending moonflowers by blue lantern light. He asked Guest to come back tomorrow. No one has ever come back.