Chapter 57: Do You Believe in Condolence?
A few days later, Raphael Cemetery.
A faint mist envelops the steles, blurring the distant scene and making it impossible for people walking here to stare at the pain in front of them. Although there was no rain in the sky, the funeral attendees always had lingering gloom clouds in their eyes, and their black clothes looked like silhouettes from the fog, pasted on the final play of the life of the mourners.
Leonard, Dunn, Benson, and Frye carry the coffin and place it in a newly excavated grave pit. Dunn's body wasn't fully recovered, and a strange and extraordinary power remained on him, making his recovery unusually slow.
But he insisted on coming as the bearer of the coffin, and Daly stood a few paces away, looking at Dunn sadly, and he covered his mouth and coughed silently twice as no one was looking.
The pastor's eulogy and the prayers of each other are like watering a dead flower through glass to a friend or family member buried six feet underneath.
Melissa half-crouched down to the grave that had begun to be filled, and threw into it the brass whistle and broken tassel knots that Crane had always carried, not knowing what they meant to Crane and never knowing from her brother.
Leonard gritted his teeth again, he became more and more determined in his decision to join the "Red Glove", mastered the way to play, he will definitely be able to climb higher and go further, he must be strong and avenge the innocent sacrifice of his colleagues and other affected people.
Melissa tensed herself up after learning of Crane's death, not crying or making a fuss, but just silently helping Benson prepare all the follow-ups.
Send your worried, gentle and hard-working nerdy second brother to a cemetery where the deceased can sleep forever.
The grave pit was filled in.
Melissa's friends Selena and Elizabeth were standing beside her, and Elizabeth leaned her head lightly on Melissa's ear, her face full of tears, and her face with baby fat looked extremely haggard.
Dunn swept the expressions of everyone present, then he closed his eyes slightly, not knowing what he was thinking, and when Daley whispered to him, Dunn just shook his head in silence, indicating that he was okay.
The three lines are engraved below Klein Moretti's black-and-white photographs and the dates of his birth and death, condensing the most bitter hearts of those who miss him deeply:
"The best brother;
The best brother;
The best colleague. ”
Most of the funeral attendees had heavy faces, a few with tears on their faces, and some whispered comforting to Melissa and Benson, the siblings nodding numbly in response to the empty words of comfort.
Dunn's face was so gloomy that the sun couldn't fall into his deep eyes, he never expected this to be the end, he thought that he had paid the price of his life to save Tingen, but he didn't expect someone to snatch him back from the hands of death.
Tingen was not destroyed, but some people left them forever.
Roshan had already cried several times in the past few days, and today she began to shed tears again, and only two slits remained in her red and swollen eyes. Siga handed her a handkerchief, but Roxanne's tears began to fall.
But Tingen couldn't do without the night watchmen, and they had to rush back to Blackthorn Security as soon as possible, and in coordination with the police, they temporarily rented the building next door and waited for the original house to be repaired before moving back.
Leonard's footsteps stopped after walking past a few tombstones, and he stared silently at another name.
It was an arched stone tablet with no picture of the sleeping man on it, only a bow-like symbol engraved on it, the name below had no surname, and the birthday was only a question mark, and contrary to the concise message, the epitaph below was quite long:
"Four tablespoons of butter, half a cup of cocoa powder, two eggs,
1/2 cup sugar, two-thirds cup flour, 1/2 bowl of whipped cream,
Stir vigorously until even, and simmer on high heat for 30 minutes in a large oven.
Sprinkle with frosting, crushed nuts or delicious ice cream. ”
Leonard tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying.
When Dunn walked to his side, he couldn't help but stop, looking at these few lines of extremely strange epitaphs, the tombstones were almost impossible to stuff, and all the inscriptions had to be squeezed and pasted together.
Dali next to her looked curiously.
A recipe is certainly incompatible with the silent cemetery, which also makes Dalie smile sadly: "I seem to know why Roshan and you think so highly of this girl." ”
"She's also one of the night watchmen in Tingen," Leonard said softly, as if for fear of waking up the people buried beneath the cemetery, "I'm glad to know her, and I'll remember her name." ”
One day, I will avenge her, for Crane, the culprit of all this!
The old man in Leonard's mind sighed deeply, and the sigh contained complex emotions that Leonard couldn't understand.
Dunn didn't know what to do with Leonard, and he knew that the grief about the accident would continue for a week, but in two or three weeks...... Will they still remember Ester?
On the day of Esther's burial, Deacon Cesima took all the "written records" of the Tingen Nightwatch's team related to her, including the notes Esther had written, the books she had read, the colored strings she had used to weave, and all the items in her room.
Esther was buried only with another silver Night Emblem, and she wore the most modest linen dress, and if it weren't for the piercing wound on her forehead that could be seen through the bottom of the coffin, Esther looked as if she was asleep from weakness.
Crane had another funeral, but the Templar's instructions for Esther's hasty burial left Dunn sad. Only the next day, her pale face was covered under the coffin.
In Roxanne's whimpering pain, everyone took out the braided bracelet or knot that Esther had given her, but the thread she said was "full of blessings" when she gave it was broken.
Dunn only discovers after Klein's funeral that he doesn't even have anyone to inform - no one needs to know about Esther's death. In this way, she was easily erased by Ince Zangwill, and after saving her own life, she left the night watchmen in Tingen for good.
When we all forget her, who will pray for her and mourn her death?
Until the day when the night watchmen who came to Raphael's cemetery to patrol the cemetery crossed Esther's tombstone without any waves, the last memories she left for us were gone......
"Dunn, it's time for us to go." Dai Li's voice sounded softly, and she looked sadly at the name on the tombstone, which "never recognized", and always felt something familiar.
"Hmm." Dunn strode in the direction of leaving the cemetery.
Leonard glanced at Esther's tombstone again, trying to remember her voice and smile, and engraved the oath he had made to the two deceased today.
A black crow hovered in the sky for a long time, and it was not until everyone in the cemetery had left that it flew down to fold its wings and land in front of the brand-new stele.
It didn't make a sound for a long time at the funny recipe epitaph.
Soon, the crow spread its wings again, and its hoarse chirping went far to the east.