Tommy laid the last rock down on Marcus’s cairn and then stepped away. They had buried him at the edge of the forest, on the north side of the temple. A fitting place, Desa thought. He would get lots of sunlight. Strange that she should feel so…hollow inside. Marcus had betrayed her. She should be angry! She should feel something, but there was only a hole where her emotions should be.
somethingDesa stood at the foot of the mound with her hands clasped in front of herself, her head bowed respectfully. “He was a good man.” She had no idea why she felt the need to eulogize him – if anything, that task should fall to Miri – but the words were coming out, and she didn’t try to stop them. “A man who did his duty as he saw it. Perhaps misguided at times. But…He cared.”
She stepped aside.
Tomm
