Cat:
The charred remains of the small mammal were scattered all around the sand, and the sight of its once pale body and now darkened and dismembered drove the point home more to Roy than any of the humans he had incinerated from far off. Had they all looked like this…. when their families had come to get them? Women… children?..
And it was beside the remains of the white cat that Riza found him hours later, just staring at the slowly rotting body that was becoming dinner for the sand insects.
"Come on, Sir, it's time to go."
"Proper… burial…"