Immortality, she had long since realized, was not so glorious a thing; Insanity, she knew, was not so elusive a creature as she had once thought. And the two of them were her signposts, her sole company, the sharpened edges of the narrow path - until Eternity. Oneshot. Pre- and post-series. M for language.

Mitakihara is a haunted city. There are specters on the rooftops, they say, and wraiths walking through the nights. Kaname Tatsuya did not know what he was expecting when he joined Mitakihara Police Department Eight, but certainly, it was not monsters and myths and a dark-haired girl that tugs at the deepest, most hidden corners of his memory and hints at secrets he thought lost.

Where water meets a shadow, beneath the forest green/And shadow tries and fails to pierce the water's sheen.