Chapter 15: The Banshee and the Funeral

The cemetery in the south part of the Grande House is located to the southwest of the residence, separated by woods, and is rarely visited by people in normal times, after all, few people are willing to visit the graves of criminals and anonymous people. The whole burial area is divided into four districts, east, west, north and south, and each circle is separated by a fence, although iron bars are used, but for reasons of respect or fear of the dead, even if few people from the Grande House come to take care of them, these iron bars are still intact, only a little rust.

Mrs. Quinne's car drove on the road between the north and south tomb circles. Further west, on the west side of the North Cemetery, is the destination of the line, the church.

Worthy of a luxury limousine, the bumps in Benjamin's car, in Mrs. Quinn's car, became a tiny float, and there was no discomfort except for making people drowsy.

Mrs. Quinn tilted her head and looked out the window at Nanyuan.

Zach sat in the car, a little embarrassed.

The reason is also very simple, in the north park, there are many 'rocks', and in the south park, there are weeds.

According to federal customs, those who committed crimes were generally buried in the north, supposedly to be close to the church and atone for the sins in front of them. The main customers of [Grande Funeral Home] are those sinners who died in prison, as for those stones, they are actually the tombstones 'carved' by Benjamin himself, and because they are sinners, the prison officers never care what the tombstones of those people will look like, if it is not for the cost of cremation is higher than the most 'low-standard' burial, they wish that the bones of these sinners are gone!

However, the East and West South Park, which is used for ordinary people to be buried, has been neglected, weeds have spread, and trees have grown horizontally. In recent years, when ordinary people come to the southern part of the Grande House, Zach can count them on one hand.

"Good, good. There was a hint of a smile on Mrs. Quinn's wrinkled face.

Zach didn't know whether to rejoice or be depressed that he had invited a strange old woman. Well, Mrs. Quinn's great image was utterly shattered when she whispered that word in Zach's ear! Her smile was probably joyful: the funeral must have lasted longer than she had left to live, so that she would not see the smug face of her grandson Poch until she closed her eyes!

Between the grandparents and grandchildren, Zach doesn't know if it's 'Sun' who wants 'Zu' to die early is more distorted, or if 'Zu' wants 'Sun' to live in pain and is more distorted.

In order to find a trace of cause and effect in this intertwined twist, Zach took Alice with him.

The vampire looked at the banshee, who had shrunk to the side since they met Lady Quinn, and asked her with a look in his eyes, 'Did you see that?'

Alice sat in the large, soft seat, and even though it was very warm inside, she hugged her shoulders tightly, her white bones shivering.

Mrs. Quinn turned her head and noticed Alice's trembling, the strange smile disappeared on her wrinkled face, and she raised her hand to the blanket next to her, and then to Alice. The caretaker understood what Madame meant, took the blanket, folded it, and put it over Alice's body.

"I've seen too many kids like you. Mrs. Quin looked at Alice with some pity, and then at Zack, "You seem to be a very reliable person, but you are not a good brother. ”

Zach didn't expect Mrs. Quinn to suddenly talk about herself, a little puzzled, he bowed slightly, and asked respectfully, "Why did Mrs. say that?"

"Because your sister, Alice, is in fear!" said Mrs. Quinn, holding out her hand, as if trying to take Alice.

Alice looked at Zach at a loss, Zach nodded slightly, and Alice shifted her body and leaned towards Mrs. Quinn. The withered arm wrapped around Alice, stroking up and down.

Zach still had a puzzled expression, looking at Mrs. Quinn, who was waiting for an explanation.

"Zachary, your name stands for honesty. Mrs. Quin looked back at Zack, "Then tell me, have you seen too many children's eyes after death?"

Alice, nestled in Mrs. Quinn's thin arms, staggered.

"Oh, poor boy. Don't be afraid......" Lady Quinn gently patted Alice on the back, comforting the frightened banshee.

Of course, Mrs. Quinn didn't know that the person in her arms was a banshee! You could see the banshee of death! So, Zach was no less surprised than Alice!

"Your sister has those eyes! she's scared!" Mrs. Quinn stared into Zach's pale green eyes, "and you, and you're ignoring your sister's fears! she's only sixteen years old! she's supposed to be at school talking to girls her age about the stars in magazines, the clothes on Liszt Street!, instead of staying in this lifeless cemetery!"

Zach raised an eyebrow, he didn't keep up with Mrs. Quinn's thinking.

"I don't understand, Mrs. Quinn, why do you say that Alice has seen too many deaths?"

"Because I've spent more than ten years helping such children!" Mrs. Quinn sighed, as she seemed to be separated from the twist in her heart and turned into an ordinary old man: "The first death comes from the children's relatives, grandfathers, grandmothers, parents, brothers, and then the people around them, may be neighbors, may be teachers, ......"

Zach listened quietly, realizing that Mrs. Quinn's account had returned to the war era, and she was describing the changes that the children of that era had experienced.

"Until the person who has never spoken on the street corner, the stranger on the street...... Adults become numb, but children don't. Every person buried in the ground is a shadow, and these shadows are like a net that covers the eyes of children. ”

Mrs. Quinn took Alice by her hand and continued.

And this net is reminding these children, every person they see today, every body temperature they feel. It will disappear one day, maybe tomorrow, or even tonight, it will become cold and marked with death......"

Zach's eyes widened, and his expression was a little dazed. And Alice's always tightened shoulders opened, and her thin hands wrapped around Mrs. Quinn's back!

Alice has never taken the initiative to hug anyone other than Zach!

"Although the war is over, ordinary children have been shaken off such fears. But your sister is still in the shadow of death!"

Mrs. Quinn looked across the deserted cemetery.

"Your sister is tormented by this net! Isolated from the outside world, she is afraid to contact anyone, and she closes her heart! This is her fear!" Mrs. Quinn felt Alice's initiative, stroked Alice's back, and still stared at Zack: "And you neglected! 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 to grow up!"

Zach looked down, he was thinking. Vampires will take in banshees because of their fellow alien sympathies. The reason why Alice stays with the vampire is also very simple, the vampire is the one who has died once, and the death that Alice 'sees' in him is actually a rebirth, and this little solace makes the banshee follow Zack.

Before Mrs. Quinn's words, Zach had never thought about what was behind Alice's anxiety.

"Here we are, ma'am. The car was parked, and Mrs. Quinn patted Alice on the shoulder and looked out the window at the church, where a priest in an old cannon was already waiting.

After getting out of the car, Zach excused himself not to disturb Madame's conversation with the priest, and walked with Alice to the woods where no one was around.

"Alice, is what Mrs. Quinn said true?" Zach asked, taking Alice's shoulder.

Alice hesitated, but nodded.

"Why don't you sue me?" Zach frowned.

Naturally, the vampire is not referring to 'the stars of discussion magazines' or 'clothes on Liszt Street', but to the fear of intersecting with others after seeing death.

Alice hugged Zach and shook her head in his arms.

Even if it was said, it would not change the fact that Alice could see death. Lady Quinn's keen observation saw the beginning, but she took the wrong path and came to a conclusion that seemed ridiculous to vampires.

"I just want a home where I can live in peace. Alice said in Zack's arms.

However, Zach has already made a decision to read the Quinns' work on helping wartime orphans, and Mrs. Queens is right about one thing, Alice is only sixteen years old and should not live in fear (cemetery).

Alice withdrew from Zack's arms, her head hanging down, her voice trembling a little: "I see Mrs. Quinn's, her future. ”

The future in Alice's mouth only represents death.

"What happened?" Zach asked softly, Alice didn't like to tell the story of someone else's death, and now it could be seen that Alice was genuinely close to Mrs. Quinn. But that's why if they want to change the 'future', they have to know the process that preceded the change!

Alice's head lifted, and Zach saw the anger, "It's Poch!"

While Zach was leading Alice to the church, our vampire was thinking about how to save Lady Quinn's life, and I took advantage of the vampire's thinking to explain why Alice's title was preceded by 'mourning'.

Because death is an ongoing process. We may be bitten by an inconspicuous insect, we may ignore a red light at an intersection, we may jump into an icy lake without warming up, we may just order a fried chicken at a fried chicken shop on the corner every day, or we may light a cigarette on the urging of nicotine addiction......

For a banshee, death is never sudden, it begins with a small event, so small that no one notices, only the banshee can 'see'. Mrs. Quinn thinks of Alice as an ordinary girl, so she is a little wrong, for Alice, she knows when the people around her will become cold and buried in the ground, because she can see the full process of death!

So when the banshee tells you, 'Watch your right side, don't ......drink after the sun goes down,' you'd better do as you say. 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, the 'mourning' is crowned in front of the banshee.

Back to Mrs. Quinn.

Her death began half a year ago with a drop of liquid that Pochi had put in her black tea. For half a year, the scene where Mrs. Quin was constantly changing, and the people around her were constantly changing, and the only thing that remained unchanged was that this drop of transparent liquid was unintentionally sent to Mrs. Quinn's mouth in various ways. And the end of this death will happen at midnight in the following year, and the foreign body that has been spawned by ** will clog Mrs. Quinn's heart!