you've been acting awful tough lately smoking a lot of cigarettes lately;

[rhinemaid]

Who: Anna Demirovna and Ilde Decima
What: Grieving, faerie bonding, distractions and catching up.
Where: Sobek Croix (cemetery, then moonpools)
When: Veerdi night, after Boromir's funeral.
Notes: Funeral wear. ...yes. Also, title text.
Warnings: References to death; nudity.

After the funeral service, Ilde lingers to see him put in the ground; it's surreal, after having met Brian, and it makes an already uncomfortable experience a more bewildering one, leaving her unsure precisely how she's meant to feel. Does she grieve for someone who's gone if he isn't, really? --but he is, because Brian is different, even if he's the same, which makes sense and doesn't, actually, the whole thing is just...

(She wonders, but not for very long, what it was like to see her alive after experiencing her death in New York; it isn't a question she intends to ask anybody.)

When the earth is being patted back down into place, Boromir's marble headstone above it still a crisp new white, and the last stragglers are mostly gone or going - she moves away, finally, hat tipped down and hands hidden in her sleeves. She isn't entirely sure where it is she's actually going, but wherever it is, she's not going there in a particular hurry. There are probably people she should talk to (would it be prudent to warn someone-- she could always say something to Mycroft-- no, it's probably better not to wade into that herself), but it feels like a vague concern when she's so expertly distancing herself from the thing. It doesn't make sense and it's uncomfortable and so it's...somewhere else, and she's going for a walk (in the dark, in the woods, which is probably not as bad as it sounds when they're Sobek Croix's woods), and anyway--

Fuck it.