She should have never have gone

She should have never have gone. The smile he had given her would haunt her for the rest of her days. As Viola Cadaverini stood on the edge of the roof of the Gatewater Hotel, she recalled just how it happened.

Kristoph Gavin's execution had been scheduled on an overcast day in the middle of the summer. Hundreds of people turned up to view the gruesome spectacle, and Viola was one of them, standing in front of the execution site, feet away from Kristoph Gavin. By his own special request, Kristoph was sentenced to death by hanging. As the officials read out the charges, Kristoph whistled a song familiar to them all.

"I see trees of green, and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself…

What a wonderful world…"

The sound of this man, whistling in the face of death, chilled the very marrow in everyone's bones.

Viola stared determinedly at the ground. She had no idea why she had come here. She shouldn't have come…she shouldn't have come…she shouldn't have come…

As Kristoph stepped into the noose, his eyes scanned the crowd. Unwillingly, Viola looked up, into Kristoph's eyes, his piercing blue eyes! The stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity.

Suddenly, incredibly, he smiled. All the air seemed to disappear from Viola's lungs. She reached out, hoping to grab Kristoph, to save him. They continued to stare at each other, drinking in each other's faces in that infinitesimal moment.

Then the executioner gave the order, and the deed was done. It was later commented on that unlike other victims of hanging, Kristoph Gavin's face was, if anthing, peaceful, as though glad the end had come.

Viola shuddered, tears streaming out of her eyes, her hair whipping across her face. She stared down at the city below for just two seconds before stepping into eternal nothingness. As she fell, time seemed to slow to a crawl as her life flashed before her eyes. She saw the many twists and turns that her life had taken, all coming to an end.

In a house in the middle of the city, Matthias Degrassi was watching the news.

"The body of local shop owner Viola Cadaverini was found this afternoon at the foot of the Gatewater Hotel," the newscaster read. "Police have ruled the death a suicide. Cadaverini was 33.

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