“Can you even call this a life?”

-Nil

The dark, the young, and the ever so grumpy Nil has come to the city of Harz to find the family that he lost. By day the locals run about getting ready for their annual art festival, far too busy to realize that some of them are lacking souls, or how violent they become if someone messes with their routine. They certainly don’t give any sign that artworks are coming to life every night to steal their dreams away. A woman in blue tries to speak through a mirror glass, warning Nil not to touch the artworks as they go about, moments before the White Knight statue appears. Fortunately his ghost partner Avery can fight off any statue, ghost, or puppet demon in sight, especially when he goes from lazy and whimsical to absolutely psychotic.

But there’s one spirit even Avery can’t drive away. Perhaps Bernard is dramatic by nature, or perhaps the diminished state of his soul has left him a touch oblivious at times. Either way Harz should be teeming with ghosts, people whose bodies have died, not souls who can’t find their still living bodies. Bernard needs a magical contract to keep himself from fading away like most of the others, and in return he’ll play middleman between Nil and the local dead. They speak of a time when their bodies and souls were still one, a time when they often dreamed of the boy depicted in the works of Savio Gennari, an artistic genius and professor that is less well known as Nil’s father.