Dust to Dust

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The sun is shining in a bright sky when they bury her, because the weather has no sense for tact and knows nothing of grieve and regret. It has been watching form above for five billion years and will do so for another time that long. It knows nothing of mortality, and passing.

The three gods that have come to the funeral know nothing of mortality either, but they have watched form much closer when the time passed and she grew old and faded, not the first and not the last but in the end the only one that ever really mattered.

When they are gone a golden harried woman steps out of the shadows and leaves a chain of flowers on the grave. They weren't close, but she has tasted mortality for a short time and feels the need to remember, if only for a moment.