Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20190816164916

You were riding from place to another because reasons that are irrelevant to the main scenario. And as it happens you were passing a old abandoned town, This had once been one those "boom towns" that got built practicly overnight after someone had found gold in the region. That gold had been mined long time ago, and people had abandoned the town, effectively turning it to ghost town.

This how ever didn't mean that there would be ghosts, or anything else for that matter. Just some abandoned buildings, and nothing more... or so you thuoght.

As you were passing by the church, heard a female voice calling someone, you stopped, but initially you didn't see anyone. How ever soon a faint glimmer, almost like mist started approaching you from the now burnt, and ruined church. The apparation closed in on you, calling out name that was not yours. The mist started taking more shape, and soon a ghost of a beautiful woman in her wedding gown stood right in front of you.

She was very happy to see you, claiming that she knew that you wouldn't abandon her, you were just late. You wanted to flee, but your horse refused to move, and you were quite certain that your legs wouldn't carry you, if you would try to run on your own. How ever you managed to tell to the ghost that you weren't Billy, at least the Billy that she was looking for. She was devastated by this, afterall as she claimed you looked just like him. How ever, she asked if you could go look for him, He had gone in to slightly larger town to spend his last days as a free man before they got married, but he was late from the ceremony. That town, A boomtown just like this one, and it had been the largest town in the region, and to your knowlege there were still people living there, although population of 18 people, that's hardly a metropolis.

Just to get away from her, you agreed to go look for Billy in the next town over, it would be almost days ride away, but it wouldn't be too much out of your path, and you weren't in a hurry.

At the evening you arrive to the town, and go in to the bar just to wash the dust from your throat, and decide to ask about Billy from the barman. The barman gives you a sad laugh, but confirms that Billy indeed is in the town. At the graveyard where he's been buried for past 60 or so years. Then the barman tells you the whole story, Billy had came to the town but had arrived in very bad time as some bandits were just in the process of robbing the bank. Billy had just been crossing the main street, when the robbers had made their escape, and in the process shot Billy in the back 3 times. He had been dead before he had hit the ground. At the next day when her bride to be had been waiting at the altar, a lightning had hit the church. She had been only one who didn't make out from the flames. The town where this had happened was allready dying at the time. 2 years later is had been completely abandoned. How ever, 5 years after the unfortunate deaths of the unmarried couple travallers had started seeing the ghost of Mary-Jane, couple times in a year someone comes looking for Billy, and after they hear the story, they just try to forget it, and contnue their lives. This time there was something different though. She has never confused anyone to be Billy, You are the first in that regard.

At next morning as you are are about to continue your travels, you start thinking. She most likely has never learned the fate of Billy, You could go to tell her that. Then again it's really none of your business, but something keeps you from just forgetting the story. You find yourself pondering should you return to the ghost of Mary-Jane, or just go about doing your business.

WWYD 