EB wrote:

And part 2 is here...

And here is part 2 of the C+C

wept for she knew that her friend was dead and gone,
for she felt that indescribable sadness come over her
during those eighty five long days, like it had for her
husband who had been lost in China, or for dear little
Kohran who died in a bombing raid early in the war, so
many years ago it seemed.

Yikes. A lot more of them lost to the ravages of war and time,.

    They had cried as all sons do, but they remembered
what their mother had taught them.
    Dead is dead. Move on.

Besides, lacking the benefit of immortality, you'll end up like that as
well.

    Orihime shivered in the cold and

cold, and

    Her mother had borne a Japanese sailor's child, named
her after a misspoken word and ran away with a travelling
chocolate salesman.

Truly a busy lass.

    It was a full life and a happy one. But, I think I'm
missing something,

There's always something missing, it's just a question of how much it
bothers you when the end comes.

    "She must be having one helluva dream."

Yes, she probably is.

    Good fine young woman, Kaede. Your father
raised you well and you have your grandfather's
steel in you. So you will buck up and ask me
what to sing.

need quote marks.

     To the infrequent tourist who was curious enough
to go up the hill and gaze at that simple monument, this
was what they saw carved on the stone:

             HANAGUMI TEIKOKUKAGEKIDAN

                              Ichiro Ogami  Taii
                         Tachibana Maria  Chuii
                         Kirishima Kanna  Nitogunso
                                   Li Kohran  Gunso
                         Shinguuji Sakura  Heiso
Vicomtesse de Chateaubriand Iris  Jotohei
                            Soletta Orihime  Jotohei
                     Milchenstrasse Leni  Jotohei
                           Kanzaki Sumire  Jotohei

                   Yumejin ga shinde ka mo shirenai
                            Demo Yume ga mugen

A perfect touch. Very nice.

DB Sommer

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