(253) I'm assuming we can end it after you post once more with setting the body on fire?[/html]
She nodded when she seemed set on burning the body, and turned her gaze back to the mother's corpse. It was all quiet for a few moments longer. Then Neela started to say a few words in a tongue that was all unknown to Alyssum. She wondered if it was some parting prayer, but did not ask as she continued to watch the body as she heard the woman shifting around a bit, and smelled the familiar stench of whiskey.
She watched as she poured the drink over the cadaver, and generously as well. The smell of alcohol made her mind drift over to the nights she spent in Freetown, the memories itself a drunken blur. Distracted, she was only brought out of her revive when she heard the Garcia woman ask for her light, requesting to set ablaze the body herself. She noticed that she had swallowed down what was remaining in the bottle herself by the lingering scent of the whiskey on herself, but she did not think twice as she handed the matches to her.
She looked back at the body, the one last time it would be able to been seen in full form. In a couple of minutes, it may as well have been reduced to ashes. Though Alyssum did not look back at Neela nor did she say anything, she wondered if the woman wanted to be alone. But, she did not take a step away, nor would she until she would ask for her to leave.
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