The snow did well to hide the corpses underneath. With no one left to look upon them, the snow acted to take upon the task of making them disappear completely, trying its best to pile on drift after drift to erase the thought of them from anyone's mind. Unfortunately for it, one person had managed to uncover them, although, not seeming to know what she was doing, or at least not comprehending the austerity of the bodies lining the street. A little girl, no more then four at the time, right in the midst of the decaying snow piles, was playing with some small oddly shaped rocks. She was so preoccupied, she didn't notice the stranger approaching her until his shadow was almost upon her. She looked up to see the identity of this new person, squinting her eyes against the morning sun that had placed itself so conveniently behind the man's head.
The man called out in an almost soothing tone, as if he had experienced too much in his life time, but didn't want to let anyone think he was getting tired of it all.
"Hey there." A slight pause following, "Say, where are you parents?"
The girl surveyed the heaps for a quick second and finally lifted her tiny arm to point out two bodies that had recently been excavated from the field of snow. A small smile crept out of the corner of the man's mouth as he took her hand in his and helped her up off the cold, hard ground.
"Com'on, I'll take you home."
She took one last look at the piles, considering if her parents would ever wake up, or if she would ever see them again. This man is nice, she thought to herself, I'll see them again tomorrow, they haven't moved for awhile now.
The man tugged on her arm, signaling it was time to move on. They continued on down the street, turning right at the end and leaving the view of the unburied graveyard. The only thing remaining, were the footprints they left.
Once again, the snow resumed its task of erasing the memories.