Pan-Pacific Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii
November 28, 2024.
The sun was going down, when Naomi finished the interviews which she done with Marshal Pentecost and Mr. Choi. When she glanced at the setting sun and her watch, she knew, she has to hurry if she wants to get back in the hotel before nightfall. In this manner, she moved between the rows of headstones with quick but quieter steps.
The heart-breaking feeling took hold of her soul when her eyes run quickly over the numberless graves. She thought about the dead soldiers who sacrificed their life for humanity during the Kaiju War.
After some minutes the woman slowed down her steps as she approached her target. Finally, Naomi stopped in front of a burial-place and she stared at it with her ice blue eyes silently. The ranger death left a deep wound in the woman's soul and his memory, like a ghost in the heart, haunted her in every moment.
While Naomi was helplessly clutching the bouquet in her hand, she was sadly reading the epitaph:
"In memory of Yancy Becket who lost his life in the Kaiju War
November 11, 1995 – February 29, 2020
Rest in peace"
She stood mutely and gloomily in front of Yancy's honorary grave through long minutes. She felt growing restlessness and pain in her soul. As she didn't find the words, she stepped closer to the burial-place, put the bouquet onto the grave and started to adjust the flowers carefully. While she knelt down beside the burial-place, the memories – connected to Yance – secretly sneaked in her thoughts.
Her first meeting with the Becket brothers came into her mind. Not long after, Yance – without the knowledge of Raleigh – asked Naomi for a date. Despite of the fact that they arranged a second date, the young cadet didn't call on her anymore. Although neither of them would have believed that on a chilly evening in January their destiny interwove again...