03 | @hearse

[wheft]

[ on the night leading up to a certain fated day, ishmael takes a long deep breath before pressing POST. ]

For those who've just arrived or who wasn't aware of what had happened last month, we'd had some casualties during our mission in Transylvania. And while two of them had been successful revived, there was one person who wasn't able to make it despite countless efforts.

I have coordinated with Ereshkigal, the goddess of death, and by extension a fellow god of death, Tezcatlipoca. Wriothesley's funeral will be held on the 20th, at a certain beach in Okinawa. I have placed the coordinates down below should you wish to attend. There will be the final viewing of the casket in the morning, and in the afternoon he will be cremated and his ashes will be scattered into the sea, in hopes that he will make a safe return to his homeland in Teyvat.

[ ... ]

This might be ill-timed for some of you. Most of us are grieving and recovering in different ways, and I will not force you to come if you have other pressing issues to attend to. But if you'd like to to put down your parting words for him here or to me privately, I will see to it that your words will reach him.

Otherwise, anyone who's known him - whether as a friend, acquaintance, a brother figure or a confidant - is invited. If you are neither of these, just tell me if you'd like to attend out of respect anyway. Please wear black for the occasion. If you have any other questions, let me know.

...Thank you.

[ ooc: the funeral log is right here. ]

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[raynos]

sorry if i'm intruding you can just ignore this if you want

i didn't know him but i'm sorry that he's gone and that it happened like it did. back in that place, far away from his home

he sounds like a good person that helped a lot of other people and we always need guys like that around

so it's sad that we lost someone like him

i hope if there's anything beyond this life that he's happy there. and that if there are people he lost that he's missing, they're waiting for him.

[wheft]

[ ... ]

Can you tell me your name?

[raynos]

Jamie Hemeros.

[wheft]

Jamie... Thank you for your words. He really was one of the undeniably good ones here.

He's only told me a little bit about how gods work in his realm, and while I myself don't know if there is a life after death, the gods who have helped me make this happen have provided some hope that he is at the very least taken care of, wherever he may be.

That was your first mission, right?

[raynos]

yeah, this was my first mission. and no problem...like i said i didn't know him so i wasn't sure if i should say anything. but i think it says something good about him that he's remembered fondly by people here. like it's not an ideal situation for anybody, and he didn't have to care about anyone he met here, but it sounds like he did, even if he didn't know them very long.

i hope it's true, what they told you. we don't really believe in gods where i'm from and i never thought much about the afterlife but. it's nice to think that people we care about will be taken care of, like you said

sorry i'm kinda rambling

[wheft]

...You sure have a lot to say, don't you. Not that it's a bad thing.

You will want to talk to the resident gods for more details. I suppose kids from most worlds shouldn't even be thinking about human mortality at this age, but not everyone's going to be lucky. And death in general shouldn't be something that should be taalked about behind closed doors or out of earshot anyway. It happens to anyone. And frankly, I was surprised that we didn't have a single casualty until now.