The Windfall Ghost Figurine - Asta

Awarded Entity Number - JH1206-TWA

Chosen 6th of September, in the Year of Quiet Hauntings.

Placed into the Kingdom of Sweden

There are old orchards where fallen fruit is never gathered after dusk.

The first windfalls of autumn are said to mark the point at which the orchard begins keeping its own account. Fruit found beneath the trees before morning may be taken. Fruit heard falling after dark is best left where it lies.

The Guild records the Windfall Ghosts as appearing shortly after the first fruit drops, most often between the outer rows where the grass has grown long. They are rarely seen arriving. By morning they are simply there, standing among the fallen apples as though they have been counting them.

Whether they guard the orchard, claim its offerings, or merely wait for something else to arrive has never been established.

Asta is most often recorded in the pale hush that follows the first hard winds of early autumn, when the orchard floor is newly strewn and the air still carries the sharp sweetness of split fruit. Several entries note that she appears where the branches have been shaken but not stripped, as though she arrives to count what has fallen and what still clings on.

She is regarded as a quiet keeper of the turning season. Where Asta is found, the old records advise paying attention to what has been loosened, what has been left behind, and what the orchard seems ready to surrender next.

Asta the ghost figurine stands at 8 cm in height.