C96 The Reckoning

The funeral was held on a Sunday, under a sky the color of ash.

Isabella stood at the edge of the gravesite, Sebastian beside her, Lucas and Lily in her arms. The Thorn family plot was too large, she thought, for a family that had been so small. Headstones stretched across the hillside, names she didn't recognize, dates that blurred together.

Alexander's casket was lowered into the ground