Everyone gathered at the mass grave that they spent a whole day digging to bury at least a million soldiers that fell during the war. Marina offered them to create the mass grave for them, but they chose to dig it themselves as their last attempt to pay respect to the fallen brothers and sisters. Nobody could stand staring down at the pit of where the corpses were stacked neatly. Aurelia was the only one standing on the edge of the pit and stared at the only coffin at the top of the stack, the coffin of her mother, Astrea.
"Please, mother... escort them to heaven," Aurelia said, and that was the only words she said to her mother after she found out that Astrea had died. "Please bury them, Lady Marina," she looked over her shoulder at where Marina was.
