The cemetery in the south area of the Grand House is located southwest of the residence and is separated by woods. Usually, almost no one comes here. After all, few people are willing to visit the graves of criminals and anonymous people. The entire cemetery is divided into four areas, east, west, north and south. Each circular area is separated by fences. Although iron fences are used, out of respect or fear for the deceased, even though few people from the Grand House come to visit, The iron bars are still intact, but slightly rusty.
Mrs. Quinn's car drove on the road between the north and south tomb circles. Continuing to the west, on the west side of the North Cemetery, is the destination of this trip - the church.
It was worthy of being called a luxury car. The bumps in Benjamin's car turned into slight floating in Mrs. Quinn's car. There was no discomfort except for making people sleepy.
Mrs. Quinn tilted her head and looked at Nanyuan outside the car window.
Zach sat in the car, feeling a little embarrassed.
The reason is also very simple. In the north park, there are many rocks, and in the south park, there are overgrown weeds.
According to federal custom, criminals are generally buried in the north, supposedly to be close to the church and atone for the sins committed before them. The main customers of the Grande Funeral Home are the sinners who died in prison. As for the stones, they are actually the tombstones 'carved' by Benjamin himself. Precisely because they are sinners, the prison officers never care about those people. What would the tombstones look like? If the cost of cremation was not higher than the lowest standard burial, they would wish that the bones of these sinners were gone!
However, due to neglect, weeds spread and trees grew horizontally in the east-west and south-west parks where ordinary people were buried. In recent years, Zach can count on one hand the number of ordinary people who have come to the South Side of Grand House.
"Very good, very good." There was actually a smile on Mrs. Quinn's wrinkled face.
Zach didn't know whether to be grateful or depressed that he had attracted a strange old woman. Well, Mrs. Quinn's great image was completely shattered when she said those words in Zach's ear! Her smile was probably because she was happy: the funeral must last longer than her remaining life, so that before she closed her eyes, she would not see the proud face of her grandson Pochi!
Between the grandfather and grandson, Zach didn't know whether it was more twisted for 'grandson' to wish 'grandson' to die early, or whether 'grandson' wanted 'grandson' to live in pain, which was more twisted.
In order to find a trace of cause and effect in this intertwined distortion, Zach took Alice with him.
The vampire looked at the succubus who had been shrinking aside since meeting Mrs. Quinn, and asked her with his eyes: 'Did you see that? '
Alice sat on the large and soft seat. Even though the car was very warm, she still hugged her shoulders tightly, her white joints trembling.
Mrs. Quinn turned her head and noticed Alice's trembling. The strange smile disappeared from her wrinkled face. She raised her finger and pointed at the blanket next to her, then pointed at Alice. The female nurse understood what the lady meant, picked up the blanket, folded it, and covered Alice's body.
"I have seen too many children like you." Mrs. Quinn looked at Alice with some affection, and then looked at Zach: "You seem to be a very reliable person, but you are not a good brother."
Zach didn't expect Mrs. Quinn to suddenly come to him. He was a little confused. He bowed slightly and asked respectfully: "Why is Madam like this?"
"Because your sister, Alice, is in fear!" Mrs. Quinn stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to hold Alice.
Alice looked at Zach at a loss, Zach nodded slightly, and Alice moved her body towards Mrs. Quinn. His dry arms wrapped around Alice, stroking her up and down.
Zach still looked at Mrs. Quinn with a puzzled expression, waiting for an explanation.
"Zachary, your name represents honesty." Mrs. Quinn looked at Zach again: "Then tell me, have you ever seen the eyes of those children after too many deaths?"
Alice, who was nestled in Mrs. Quinn's skinny arms, suddenly froze.
"Oh, poor child. Don't be afraid..." Mrs. Quinn patted Alice's back gently, comforting the frightened banshee.
Of course, Mrs. Quinn didn't know that the person in her arms was a banshee! The banshee of death can be seen! Therefore, Zach was no more surprised than Alice!
"Your sister has eyes like this! She is scared!" Mrs. Quinn stared at Zach's light green eyes, "And you, you ignored your sister's fear! She is only sixteen years old! She should Talk to girls your age about the stars in magazines and the clothes on Lister Street at school! Not in this lifeless cemetery!”
Zach raised his eyebrows, he didn't follow Mrs. Quinn's thinking.
"Mrs. Quinn, I don't understand why you, Alice has seen too many deaths?" This was his concern.
"Because I have spent more than ten years helping such children!" Mrs. Quinn sighed. At this time, she seemed to be separated from the distortion in her heart and became an ordinary old man: "The first death comes from the children. Relatives, grandparents, parents, brothers, and then the people around them, maybe neighbors, maybe teachers... "
Zach listened quietly, and he had realized that Mrs. Quinn's narrative returned to the war era, and she was describing the changes experienced by the children of that era.
"Until it's a street corner, someone you've never spoken to, a stranger on the street... Adults become numb, but children don't. Every person buried underground is a shadow, and these shadows are like a net. , cover the children’s eyes.”
Mrs. Queen put her arms around Alice and continued.
"And this network is reminding these children that every person they see today and every body temperature they feel will disappear one day. Maybe tomorrow, or even tonight, they will become cold and be Marked for death..."
Zach's eyes widened, his expression a little startled. And Alice's shoulders that had always been tightened opened, and her thin hands hugged Mrs. Quinn's back!
Alice has never offered to hug anyone other than Zach!
"Although the war is over, ordinary children have gotten rid of such fear. But your sister is still shrouded in death!"
Mrs. Quinn looked at the entire deserted cemetery.
"Your sister is being tortured by this net! She is isolated from the outside world by this net, and is afraid of contact with anyone, so she has closed her heart! This is her fear!" Mrs. Quinn felt Alice's Taking the initiative, stroking Alice's back, still staring at Zach: "And you ignored it! So you may be a good person, but you are not a good brother! What kind of brother would put his sister in the cemetery? Growing up!”
Zach lowered his head, thinking. Vampires take in banshees out of sympathy for being members of a different race. The reason why Alice would stay with a vampire is also very simple. A vampire is a person who has died once, and the death Alice 'sees' in him is actually rebirth. This comfort makes the banshee follow Zack.
Before Mrs. Quinn's words, Zach had never thought about what was behind Alice's anxiety.
"We're here, ma'am." The car had been parked. Mrs. Quinn patted Alice on the shoulder and looked out the window at the church. A priest wearing an old-fashioned cannon was already waiting outside the door.
After getting out of the car, Zach and Alice walked towards the deserted woods on the pretext of not disturbing the conversation between his wife and the priest.
"Alice, are everything Mrs. Quinn said true?" Zach held Alice's shoulders and asked.
Alice hesitated, but nodded.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Zach frowned.
Naturally, what vampires refer to is not 'discussing celebrities in magazines' and 'clothes on Lister Street', but the fear of interacting with others after seeing death.
Alice hugged Zach and shook her head in his arms.
Even if she did, it wouldn't change the fact that Alice could see death. Mrs. Queen's sharp observation saw the beginning, but she took the wrong path and came to a conclusion that in the eyes of a vampire was ridiculous.
"I just want a home where I can live a stable life." Alice was in Zach's arms.
However, Zach has made a decision to read carefully the information about the Quinns' work in helping wartime orphans. Mrs. Quinn is right. Alice is only sixteen years old and should not live in fear (cemetery).
Alice withdrew from Zach's arms, lowered her head, and said with a trembling voice: "I saw Mrs. Quinn's future."
The future in Alice's mouth only represents death.
"What happened?" Zach asked softly. Alice didn't like to narrate the death process of others, and now, it could be seen that Alice was really close to Mrs. Quinn. But precisely because of this, if they want to change the 'future', they must know the process before the change!
Alice's head looked up and Zack saw the anger, "It's Porky!"
During the time when Zach was leading Alice to the church, our vampire was thinking about how to save Mrs. Quinn's life, and I took advantage of the vampire's thinking to explain to you why Alice's title was Add 'announcement of mourning'.
Because death is an ongoing process. We may be bitten by an inconspicuous insect, we may ignore the red light at the intersection, we may jump into the cold lake without warming up, or we may just be used to ordering fried chicken from the fried chicken shop on the corner every day. Or maybe he lit a cigarette under the influence of nicotine addiction...
For the banshee, death is never sudden. It begins with a subtle event that no one will notice and only the banshee can 'see'. Mrs. Queen regarded Alice as an ordinary girl, so she made a mistake. For Alice, she knew when the people around her would become cold and buried underground, because she could see the complete process of death!
So when the banshee tells you, 'Watch your right side and don't drink after the sun goes down...', you'd better do it. But when people didn't listen, the Banshee's reminder turned into a prophecy.
'Don't listen to them! She will curse you! … '
When people distort the cause and effect of the banshee's words, "announcement of mourning" is put in front of the banshee.
Back to Mrs. Quinn.
Her death began with a drop of liquid that Pochi dropped into her black tea half a year ago. For half a year, the scene where Mrs. Quinn was in kept changing, and the people around her kept changing. The only thing that remained unchanged was that this drop of transparent liquid was inadvertently put into Mrs. Quinn's mouth in various ways. And the end of this death will occur at midnight, and the foreign matter produced by the body will block Mrs. Quinn's heart!