Title: There
Words: 100
Challenge: Ubiquitous
Konoha's memorial for its dead is simple and unassuming, a single headstone carved with the names of those who died in the line of duty. Those who live need nothing more.
The dead are there, hidden in the shadows beneath the forest, or behind the blinding gleam of a blade in the sun. Their voices whisper softer than the rustle of the leaves, are pitched just lower than the babble of the brook. A thousand shared experiences are recalled with a smell on the breeze. Fresh-cut flowers. Roasted meat. Tobacco. They touch the living and the living do not forget.