Their killers cremated them. Even though that's forbidden.
[It's almost comical, in the darkest possible way. It's not as though they'd cared.]
Open-casket is forbidden too. But that's because you aren't supposed to look at someone who can't look back.
[A twitch of his mouth, more hideous amusement. He picks up the lopsided eye gingerly, and it coheres, grows more spherical in his hand. He drops it gently in the bucket, wipes down the wall where he leaned against it, his body and his handprint marked in the viscous fluid, drying and flaking a little in the interim.]
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Their killers cremated them. Even though that's forbidden.
[It's almost comical, in the darkest possible way. It's not as though they'd cared.]
Open-casket is forbidden too. But that's because you aren't supposed to look at someone who can't look back.
[A twitch of his mouth, more hideous amusement. He picks up the lopsided eye gingerly, and it coheres, grows more spherical in his hand. He drops it gently in the bucket, wipes down the wall where he leaned against it, his body and his handprint marked in the viscous fluid, drying and flaking a little in the interim.]