The prompt for this chapter is:"Let's go to the cemetery."
He suggests it first. She's a little surprised. He knows her well by this point in their friendship, and he's been occupying too much of her time. She hasn't visited the cemetery in a few weeks, and she must have a lot to say. It's how she grieves, and he understands that.
It's windy, and she wears a warm jacket and carries a blanket. There's a constant sound of leaves crunching under their feet as they walk.
She finds them easily, she's visited their graves so many times. Elijah clears the leaves before she spreads the blanket and sits carefully against a headstone. A few feet of dirt and some metal, that's all that separates her from her parents, she tells herself. She's not too sure about what comes after life, despite dying once. Elijah sits next to her, not too far away or too close.
She closes her eyes and begins to speak.
She tells her parents that she's back again, and she brought a friend. Elijah, she's mentioned him before. She tells them about her crazy, human life.
She speaks to bones and metal and dirt, he knows. He does not know if her parents are listening to what she's saying, but he knows she does not do this out of obligation. At least, not anymore. He just waits with her, until all of the words have spilled out, and waits for her to deem enough time has passed before they get up. She says her farewells and tells them she'll see them again soon.