some moments last forever, and some flare out with love, love, love [afterparty]

[visiblepattern]

[So that all sucked really bad, huh.

Forrest had meant what he said about going to the clinic immediately after all of this, getting medical supplies ready and set up on hand to prepare to receive people - Dandy is the primary candidate for this, whether he likes it or not - but before he goes he grabs Rossiu for the briefest moment before sending him on his way. Sure enough, when the note comes in a few minutes it isn't in Forrest's flowing, delicate hand but rather something blockier and incredibly neat. If you've seen Rossiu's handwriting, you'll recognize it: ]

We're having a memorial gathering in the ice cream parlor in an hour. Feel free to attend if you'd like, or if you would prefer to not be alone.
[...It seems like as good a place as any.

There are some things set up, though not terribly many; the tables are set out and are perhaps a bit closer than they normally would be, but go ahead and make yourself some sundaes, pull up a chair, talk to one another, ruminate over whether Jason and Hagakure would have liked this (or whether Vholran wouldn't have, either way) - it's your night, to do what you want with.]

Comments

[inaclearing]

...I can see how that might help. Sometimes it feels like after the funeral, people expect you to just be okay again - like it's over then.

[allatonce]

The Victorians used to catch their tears in these little glass vials for a year and then at the end of the year they'd sprinkle them over the grave to signal the end of mourning. But it's... it's a process like anything else, you know?

[inaclearing]

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

[.....]

You know, I'm not sure if it would be better or worse if we'd ended up having graves here.

[allatonce]

[She snorts, just a little.]

Don't say that. You know he'll put a graveyard in the next area, just to spite us.

[inaclearing]

[Brett smiles a little.]

No, it'd make the Undertaker too happy. [RIP]

[allatonce]

True. We'd have somewhere to hold the wake part of these things and that's be too nice to us. Everything here has to be, like, the Wish version of what you want.