Inspired by The Decemberists' Grace Cathedral Hill. Shannon (Athena) visits her mother's grave, and Maya (Aphrodite) tags along
She sat in the dusty sod surrounding the headstone. Sophia Yeardley Brady, it read. Wife to Arthur, Mother to Bridget and Shannon. It was Shannon's yearly pilgrimage, though hardly one friends thought appropriate for her own birthday. How willful she was, they thought, how stubborn. She'd been called acerbic by some, grating. Maya knelt silently behind the hollow Shannon, quiet, not daring to intrude on her lover's most intimate of moments. Indeed she was stubborn, willful. Most wouldn't struggle with tears the way she was now, in front of their own mother's grave. But willful, stubborn Shannon held back her sobs.