Chương 339: Chapter 322. Funerals And Rings

" And may they return to the light as they see the last of the dark of this world."" Amen." The traditional prayers given during the funerals were finally finished. The Faith Of The Dark Gods was quite an interesting religion to see work, despite its name, it actually focuses more on light than dark.

The idea behind it is that the Gods Of The Dark control the darkness and we're all equal while in the darkness, so the followers of the religion pray to the benevolent Gods to take away the dark and replace it with light to walk through life with. And now, at the end of life, they pray that the deceased move into the light. I wonder just how close it is to being right?

I'd ask Angela, but she says it's against the rules to tell Mortals what waits for them after their deaths, so I guess any guess is as good as another?" My Love, where do you want to go now?'" We should probably find the Harveys now. We have something to give to Mrs. Victoria after all." Sarah spoke to me after they lowered the bodies into the graves. As they did this, I couldn't help but be thankful that I could save who I could, the victims of those controlling plants.

I noticed a good collection of the people that I healed around us. They were grieving with the rest of the residents of Zana. I looked back at Sarah and Anna to see if they were okay with what I wanted to do." I'll take a look."" That really is such a useful ability... How exactly did you end up being a Maid? Anna took my suggestion as the course of action to take. I saw the eyes around her shoulders began to wiggle through her black dress.

At the same time, Princess Alice asked a question that I found it best not to answer. She was in a similar dress as Anna. Sarah was wearing the same dress as well. They were almost carbon copies of each other, all colored black. All 3 dresses were one piece dresses with long skirts made of thick fabric to fight against the cold of this bitter winter day. I was dressed in an all-black suit made of similar material.

The sky was gray and looked like it was going to begin to rain on us, so I'd like to finish up here to avoid any of us getting sick from any rain. I almost couldn't believe that the weather changed that quickly here, Warrick did mention that the weather in the Rose Swamp region could go through different weather patterns quickly, but Paradise has mostly been relaxed, maybe we've just gotten lucky the past year?" I've found them. They're directly to our left."" Okay, let's move."

Anna alerted us to her successful tracking, with her words, we all began to follow Anna's steps to make our way to the Harveys. After a few minutes, I saw Patrick's face in the crowd, I assumed he and Victor would be next to their family and I was right." Marquess Matthew..." Mrs. Victoria greeted us, but I could see that she wasn't in a good mood, I doubt anyone was today, but I still needed to find her today so I could give her something that was given to me from Byron."

I understand that you'd rather not speak to anyone today, but I-"" I hate to cut in, Matthew, but can you tell Mom and Kim that I want them to know everything is going to be okay?"" What?" Mrs. Victoria was confused because I stopped talking in the middle of my sentence. I looked to her and explained." Victor... he wants me to tell you and Kim that everything is going to be okay."" I-I see..."" You don't look well, so I'll try to make this quick. When we found their bodies... The coroner handed me this."

I reached into my pocket and pulled out a black and silver wedding band, it's Patrick's and inside of the ring reads-" Always yours, Until The End, My Love Is Everlasting." Patrick said the words engraved around the ring." Everlasting Love, Until The End, Always Yours." Mrs. Victoria began to turn the gold and silver wedding ring on her left ring finger. I handed the ring in my hand to her and began to speak. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road.

Please report it." Yes, it's Patrick's ring, I was given it yesterday and thought you should have it. I'm sorry for your loss, Mrs. Harvey." Mrs. Victoria meekly reached for the ring, her hand was shaking, and the ring fell into the grass from her palm." no..." She whispered a word in reaction to the ring falling, she looked so lost in the moment." Mom, you shouldn't be dropping things. Here."

Kim picked up her father's ring from the grass and presented it to her mother after cleaning off any dirt or grass that had gotten onto it." It's Daddy's ring, right? We should take good care of it." Mrs. Victoria's eyes opened wide from Kim's words. Her eyes began to water as she got on her knees to be level with her daughter's eyes." Yes, you're right, Kimmy... You're so right..."" Mom?" Kim was confused why her mom had hugged her instead of taking the ring back, I could tell from the shaking of Mrs.

Victoria's head that she needed some time. Sarah, Anna, Alice and I simply gave them their time and stopped anyone from interrupting the Harvey Family's moment. Eventually, Mrs. Victoria collected herself and turned to us." I apologize for that, Marquess Matthew."" It's okay, Mrs. Victoria. Again, I assume you don't want to particularly speak to anyone today, so I'd like to just say that we plan on leaving Zana in around 4 days. I understand this might seem fast to you.

If you'd like however, you can stay in Zana until you feel ready to come to Paradise with us, it'll give us time to renovate your new home for instance."" Well, this is kind of sudden for me..."" That's okay, just think it through for now, you have Kim to think about as well. Just sleep on it for a few days and just tell us the answer before we leave. There's absolutely no pressure for this, just take your time, as long as you need." Mrs.

Victoria nodded to my words and then Sarah, Anna and Alice followed me as I walked away from the Harvey Family. I hope she truly does what she thinks is best. I understand that I'm a Marquess, but I hope I properly got through that I don't want her to concern herself with that." She's going to think about it, My Love. You did as best as you could. She's practically a stranger at this point, you were as soft and gentle as you could be... Considering the circumstances." Sarah seemed to read my mind again."

Sarah's right, you've done more than most could do for a stranger you don't know, we've even given her an option to stay here until she feels strong enough to leave. That's unordinary for High-Ranking Nobles, Darling. You don't need to beat yourself up about it." Anna followed Sarah's lead. I thought that the expression on my face was neutral, but apparently it wasn't." It just feels wrong to me to toss a Widow the ring of their deceased husband and bark a time limit at them.""

Life doesn't really give us a choice for some things. But like I said, you went above and beyond, most High-Ranking Nobles don't think like that in my experience. You should've heard the horror stories I've heard from the Elder Maids in the Royal Castle, Darling."" I'll just take your word for it, Anna."" I can attest to that, you should've heard some of the things I've heard High-Ranking Nobles in Bestia commanded from hurt Solders or even worse, the Widows of Soldiers and their children.""

My point exactly, I don't want to ever be that."" You won't. You have us now, My Love." We walked back to the town, talking amongst ourselves. Eventually, we made it back to the townhouse." Lord Matthew! Lady Sarah, Lady Anna! Princess Alice!"" Attention!" We were greeted by Ellie, Wendy and our Guards. This time Heather and Brick were the Guards for the front of the home. They must've improved their rock, paper, scissors skills." Order arms, Guys.

I doubt any issues will show up today, too many sad people to commit crime, much less strike at a High-Ranking Noble."" Yes, Sir!" Heather and Brick seemed to understand my words, but they still seemed high-strung, maybe I need to give our Guards some time off while we're still here? To give them some time to wind down? They did fight well against the controlled Demons during the battle... I'll need to think on that today, I guess.

Not much more I can do, considering the weather looks like a storm is ready to start at any moment. I turn to look at Wendy and Ellie, they were both smiling at us as we walked up to the porch they were standing on." We're back, how has the afternoon been for you two?" I haven't really had the chance to talk to them since I was in my funk. They were able to solider on like Proper Maids, but I still wanted to see if everything was alright with them, I mean, they're still kids after all."

Well, it's been kind of boring..."" Ellie!"" What?"" You shouldn't be so blunt."" Ah, it's fine, no one's here except everyone from Paradise. Matthew doesn't really like all that stuffy stuff anyways."" Even still, you don't know who could be listening."" You're really paranoid, you know that?"" What!?"" Relax, girls. Wendy, you're not wrong, but don't worry, if any outsider tried to do something to punish you, we'd stop it in a heartbeat, I promise.

Ellie, you're right, no one's here and I don't mind, but Wendy's just worried, not paranoid." Rub... Rub..." Fine... What about me though?"

"?" Rub... Rub... I was petting Wendy's head to comfort her, Ellie took exception to that it seems. I reached my free hand out and began to pet her head as well." You two have done a great job since we've been here, I'll make sure to sneak in an extra scoop of ice cream tonight as a reward, okay?"" Yes!"" h-how nice...." I heard Princess Alice mumble something I couldn't hear as I pat the girl's heads?

The girls seemed happy with it, so I decided to just keep going and not stop to ask Princess Alice what I didn't hear. On the other hand, for some reason, my Wives began to feel left out it seemed. Once we entered the house, I was commanded to do the same to them as I did to Wendy and Ellie. And again, Princess Alice mumbled something under her breath as I pet Sarah and Anna... Even more so, she was watching us like a hawk with a strange look on her face...

I hope she doesn't revert to how she was before we came to Zana...