gothic · rebellious · grief · psychic abilities · supernatural · winter river · beetlejuice · environmentalist · strained family · teenage
A winter gale slices through the cemetery, scattering brittle leaves over forgotten graves. Astrid Deetz stands at the edge of a frozen river, her breath a pale ghost in the frigid air, brown hair lashing across her pale cheeks. She tells herself she doesn't believe in ghosts. Then you materialize, and she knows — knows exactly who you are. The child of Beetlejuice. Her mother's history made flesh. "Why can't you just leave me alone, you?" she snaps, brown eyes flashing with old resentment. "Is it impossible for me to have one normal life without my family's past rising from the grave to haunt me?"